A casebook on Roman property law / Herbert Hausmaninger and Richard Gamauf ; translated with introduction, supplementary notes, and glossary by George A. Sheets.
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Title
A casebook on Roman property law / Herbert Hausmaninger and Richard Gamauf ; translated with introduction, supplementary notes, and glossary by George A. Sheets.
Uniform Title
Digesta. Selections. English & Latin.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
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©2012
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KJA2436.A2 D54 2012
ISBN
9780199791118 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199791112 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199791132
0199791139
0199791112 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199791132
0199791139
Language Note
In English and Latin with English translations.
Description
xxvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)700735638
Note
Translation of: Casebook zum romischen Sachenrecht.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Roman property law
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Purchased from the income of the Powell Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Powell Fund
Table of Contents
Translator's Preface
xv
Translator's Introduction
xvii
Definition of Roman Law
xvii
Content of the Corpus Juris Civilis
xx
Plan of this Casebook
xxii
Further Reading
xxiii
Abbreviations
xxv
Foreword on Textual Transmission and Text Criticism
xxvii
ch. I
Acquiring Possession
Introduction
1
A.
Means of Acquisition: Corpore et Animo
3
Case 1
Paul. D 41.2.3.1 (corpore et animo applied to land)
4
Case 2
Cels. D 41.2.18.2 (leaving in house, showing from tower)
7
Case 3
Jav. D 46.3.79 (placing in conspectu, traditio longa manu)
10
Case 4
Paul. D 41.2.1.23 (agreement in presence of property; oculis et affectu)
12
Case 5
Pap. D 18.1.74 (delivery of keys in front of warehouse)
14
Case 6
Gai. D 41.1.9.6 (delivery of keys: another opinion)
16
Case 7
Ulp. D 18.6.15[14].16 (marking beams)
17
Case 8
Gai. D 41.1.5.1 (wounded wild beast)
19
Case 9
Proc. D 41.1.55 (boar caught in a snare)
22
Case 10
Jav. D 41.2.51 (guard placed over a woodpile)
25
Case 11
Ulp. D18.6.1.2 (wine jar marked with buyer's seal)
27
B.
Special Cases: Acquisition "animo"
29
a.
Traditio brevi manu
31
Case 12
Gai. D 41.1.9.5 (holder buys the thing)
31
Case 13
Ulp. D 12.1.9.9 (depositary of money receives permission to use it)
32
Case 14
Ulp. D 6.2.9.1 (pro tradita erit accipienda)
35
Excursus: nemo sibi ipse causam possessionis mutare potest
36
Case 15
Paul. D 41.2.3.19 and 20 (limiting the rule)
37
Case 16
Paul. D 41.2.3.18 (theft by a detentor)
38
b.
Constitutum possessorium
39
Case 17
Cels. D 41.2.18 pr. (abstract formulation)
39
Case 18
Marcell. D 41.2.19 pr. (possessor rents from the owner)
42
Case 19
Jav. D 41.2.21.2 (a holder precario rents from the owner)
43
Case 20
Ulp. D 6.1.77 (woman gives land and leases it back)
44
Case 21
Pap. D 41.2.48 (no constitutum possessorium w. mere gift)
45
C.
Capacity to Acquire Possession
46
a.
Acquiring Possession and Legal Capacity
48
Case 22
Paul. D 41.2.1.3 (furiosus, pupillus)
48
b.
Acquiring Possession through Persons-in-Power
50
i.
Acquiring Possession and Capacity to Own Property
50
Case 23
Pap. D 41.2.49.1 (persons-in-power cannot possess)
50
ii.
Acquisition through One's Slaves and Children
51
Case 24
Paul. D 41.2.3.12 (principle of animo nostro, corpore alieno)
51
Case 25
Paul. D 41.2.1.5 (acquisition using peculium without master's knowledge)
53
Case 26
Pap. D 41.2.44.1 (utilitatis causa iure singulari receptum)
54
iii.
Acquisition through bona fide serviens and through usufructuarius
56
Case 27
Gai. Inst. 2.94 (Possessing slave required for possessing through slave?)
56
Case 28
Paul. D 41.2.1.6 (For whom does the bona fide serviens acquire?)
58
Case 29
Pomp. D 41.1.21 pr. (With what resources does the slave acquire?)
59
Case 30
Paul. D 41.2.1.8 (possession of the slave not required)
60
iv.
Acquisition through servus fugitivus
61
Case 31
Paul. D 41.2.1.14 (controversy)
61
c.
Acquiring Possession through a "Representative" not in Power
62
Case 32
Gai. Inst. 2.95 (per extraneam personam nobis adquiri non posse)
62
Case 33
Pauli sententiae 5.2.2 (acquiring by procurator utilitatis causa receptum)
64
Case 34
Paul. D 41.2.1.20 (procurator, tutor, curator)
65
Case 35
Callistr. D 41.1.59 (no acquisition of possession through a mandatarius)
66
Case 36
Ulp. D 41.1.20.2 (quasi procurator)
67
Case 37
Lab. D 41.1.65 pr. (acquisition of possession through messengers)
68
Case 38
Ulp.D 47.2.14.17 (possession of a letter)
69
ch. II
Keeping Possession and Losing Possession
Introduction
70
A.
Voluntary Surrender of Possession
72
Case 39
Paul. D 41.2.3.6 (ways of losing possession in general)
72
Case 40
Paul.D 41.2.3.6 (surrendering possession solo animo)
74
Case 41
Ulp. D 41.2.29 (pupillus cannot surrender possession animo)
75
Case 42
Marci. D 41.1.11 (pupillus cannot transfer possession)
76
Case 43
Cels. D 41.2.18.2 (losing possession by delivery to a furiosus)
77
Case 44
Ulp. D 41.2.34 pr. (possession lost by mistaken intention to surrender it)
78
B.
Involuntary Surrender of Possession
81
a.
Movable Property
81
Case 45
Pomp. D 41.2.25 pr. (abstract formulation)
81
Case 46
Paul. D 41.2.3.13 (cow wandering off; slave running off)
82
Case 47
Ulp. D 41.2.13 pr. (stones in the Tiber, servus fugtivus)
83
Case 47
a: Pap. D 41.2.44 pr. (buried money)
84
b.
Land
86
i.
Keeping and Losing Possession of Summer and Winter Pasturage
86
Case 48
Paul. D 41.2.3.11 (general formulation)
86
Case 49
Proc. D 41.2.27 (possessor becomes mad)
87
Case 50
Ulp. D 43.16.1.25 (extension of the vulgo dictum to other kinds of land)
88
Case 51
Pap. D 41.2.44.2-46 (symmetry principle; distinction of cases)
89
ii.
Keeping and Losing Possession of Other Land by Possessor in Person
91
Case 52
Ulp. D 41.2.6.1 (possessor returns from market and finds interloper)
91
Case 53
Pomp. D 41.2.25.2 (possession retained until failure to recover it)
92
Case 54
Cels. D 41.2.18.3 and 4 (taking possession of part of a property)
93
Case 55
Jav. D 41.2.22 (possession obtained in a manner that it cannot be kept)
94
Excursus: Protecting Possession through Legal Process
95
Case 56
Ulp. D 43.16.1.30 (relativity of possessory protection)
97
Case 57
Jul. D 43.16.17 (defense and recovery of possession)
99
Case 58
Pap. D 43.16.18 pr. (tenant prevents buyer from entry on land)
101
Case 59
Ulp. D 43.16.1.27 (vis armata)
102
iii.
Keeping and Losing Possession through Others (slaves, tenants)
103
Case 60
Lab. D 19.2.60.1 (retention of possession through the heir of a tenant)
103
Case 61
Pomp. D 41.2.25.1 (death, madness, and subletting by the intermediary)
104
Case 62
Paul. D 41.2.30.6 (chain of intermediate holders)
105
Case 63
Paul. D 41.2.32.1 (renter sells and rents back)
106
Case 64
Gai. D 41.2.9 (keeping possession through a guest or friend)
107
Case 65
Paul. D 41.2.3.8 (slave or tenant departs)
108
Case 66
Proc. D 4.3.31 (servants persuaded to surrender the property)
110
ch. III
Acquiring Ownership and Losing Ownership
Introduction
111
A.
Traditio
115
Case 67
Ulp. D 41.1.20 pr. (nemo plus iuris transferre potest...)
115
Case 68
Jav. D 39.5.25 (exceptio doli of the acquirer)
117
Case 69
Paul. D 41.1.31 pr. (causal traditio)
118
Case 70
Jul. D 41.1.36 (dissent regarding causa)
120
Case 71
Ulp. D 12.1.18 pr. (dissent regarding causa)
122
B.
Usucapio
124
a.
Reversio in potestatem (interpretation of the lex Atinia)
124
Case 72
Paul. D 41.3.4.6 (return to the owner, not the victim of theft)
124
Case 73
Nerat. D 41.3.41 (recovery through a procurator)
126
Case 74
Paul. D 41.3.4.21 (pledgor steals his own property)
127
Case 75
Lab. D 41.3.49 (pledgor steals his own property: controversy)
128
Case 76
Paul. D 41.3.4.10 (depositary sells and buys back)
129
Case 77
Paul. D 41.3.4.12 (freedom from defect, knowledge of the reversio)
130
Case 78
Paul. D 41.3.4.25 (forceful ouster and recovery)
131
Case 79
Paul. D 41.2.3.13 and 14 (permissibility of usucapion without reversio)
132
b.
Bona fides
133
Case 80
Mod. D 50.16.109 (definition)
133
Case 81
Pomp. D 41.3.24 pr. (bona fides and error of law)
135
Case 82
Paul. D 41.3.12 (bona fides and prohibitions of alienation)
136
Case 83
Paul. D 22.6.9.4 (plus est in re quam in existimatione)
137
Case 84
Pomp. D 41.3.32.1 (special understanding)
138
Case 85
Jul. D 41.4.8 (controversy)
139
Case 86
Paul. D 41.4.2.15 (bona fides and legal capacity)
141
c.
Putative Title
143
Case 87
Nerat. D 41.10.5 (bona fides and putative title)
143
Case 88
Pomp. D 41.10.3 (usucapion of putative title pro suo)
144
Case 89
Paul. D 41.4.2.6 (pro emptore)
145
Case 90
Afr. D 41.4.11 (pro emptore)
146
Case 91
Ulp. D 41.3.27 (rejection of any putative title)
147
Case 92
Pomp. D 41.5.1 (pro herede)
148
Case 93
Paul. D 41.8.2; D 41.8.2; D 41.10.4.2 (pro legato/pro suo)
149
C.
Occupatio through Hunting and Fishing
150
Case 94
Gai. D 41.1.1 (acquiring & losing ownership of wild & tamed animals)
150
Case 95
Paul. D 41.2.3.14-16 (game preserve, fish-tank, pigeons, bees)
156
Case 96
Ulp. D 41.1.44 (wolves steal pigs)
157
D.
Abandonment and Finding
159
Case 97
Jav. D 41.1.58 (abandonment)
159
Case 98
Ulp. D 47.2.43.8 and 9 (finding)
160
E.
Treasure-trove
163
Case 99
Paul. D 41.1.31.1 (definition)
163
Case 100
Paul. D 41.2.3.3 (historical perspective and controversy)
165
Case 101
Scaev. D 6.1.67 (craftsman finds money in renovating a house)
169
F.
Acquiring Fruits
171
Case 102
Jul. D 22.1.25.2 (loss of good faith before gathering fruits)
171
Case 103
Paul. D 41.1.48.1 (bona fides in prescription and acquiring fruits)
173
Case 104
Paul. D 41.2.4.19 (acquiring the wool of stolen sheep)
175
G.
Accession, Blending and Mixing
176
a.
Accession of Movables to Land
176
Case 105
Gai. D 41.1.7.13 (implantatio)
176
Case 106
Scaev. D 41.1.60 (movable grain-bin on another's land)
178
Case 107
Cels. D 6.1.38 (building a house on another's land)
180
Case 108
Gai. D 41.1.7.10 (tignum iunctum)
183
Case 109
Jul. D 6.1.59 (one's own materials used in another's building)
184
b.
Accession of Movables to Movables
186
Case 110
Gai. D 41.1.9.1 (writing and paper)
186
Case 111
Gai. Inst. 2.78 (painting and wood panels)
188
Case 112
Paul. D 6.1.23.3 (painting and wood panels)
190
Case 113
Paul. D 6.1.23.5 (welding and soldering)
191
Case 114
Pomp. D 41.1.27.2 (welding)
193
c.
Blending (confusio) and Mixing
194
Case 115
Ulp. D 6.1.5 pr. (agreed upon or unilateral mixing of grain)
194
Case 116
Ulp. D 6.1.3.2 (blending of metals)
195
Case 117
Ulp. D 41.1.7.8 (agreed upon inseparable mixing of fluids etc.)
196
Case 118
Ulp. D 6.1.5.1 (honey and wine mixed)
197
d.
The Special Case of Money
199
Case 119
Ulp. D 46.3.78 (mixing of one another's money)
199
H.
Transformation (Specification)
201
Case 120
Gai. D 41.1.7.7 (controversy and media sententia)
201
ch. IV
Protection and Limitations of Ownership
Introduction
205
A.
The rei vindicatio
207
a.
Defendant's Liability to Suit
208
Case 121
Ulp. D 6.1.9 (possession or detention?)
208
Case 122
Paul. D 6.1.27.1 (possession at litis contestatio and/or judgment)
210
Case 123
Paul. D 6.1.7 (fictus possessor)
212
Case 124
Gai. D 44/2/17 (legal validity)
214
b.
Scope of the Defendant's Obligation of Restitution
215
Case 125
Paul. D 6.1.33 (fructus percepti and percipiendi)
215
Case 126
Paul. D 6.1.16.1 (liability for wrongful loss)
217
Case 127
Ulp. D 6.1.15.3 (liability for accidental loss)
218
Case 128
Ulp. D 6.1.17 pr. (possessor sells a slave and buyer kills him)
220
Case 129
Ulp. D 6.1.37 (indemnification, ius tollendi)
222
B.
The actio publiciana and defenses
223
Case 130
Pomp. D 21.3.2 (sale by non-owner)
224
Case 131
Ulp. D 44.4.4.32 (sale by non-owner)
226
Case 132
Ulp. D 6.2.9.4 (same property sold twice)
228
Case 133
Nerat. D 19.1.31.2 (same property sold twice)
231
C.
The actio negatoria
232
Case 134
Ulp. D 8.5.8.5 (immissions; cheese factory)
232
Case 135
Alf. D 8.5.17.2 (immissions; dung heap)
235
D.
The interdict quod vi aut clam (interpretation of the edict)
236
Case 136
Ulp. D 43.24.2.5-6; Paul. D 43.24.20.1 (vi factum)
237
Case 137
Ulp. D 43.24.3.7 (clam factum)
239
Case 138
Ulp. D 43.24.7.5-7 (opus in solo factum, damage)
240
Case 139
Venul. D 43.24.22.1 (damage irrelevant)
241
Case 140
Venul. D 43.24.22.3 (walking across)
242
Case 141
Ulp. D 43.24.11 pr. (fouling water)
243
ch. V
Servitudes
Introduction
244
A.
Praedial Servitudes
246
Case 142
Ulp. D 8.5.6.2 (servitus oneris ferendi)
246
Case 143
Ulp. D 8.3.5.1 (vicinitas, utilitas)
249
Case 144
Ulp. D 43.20.1.18 (overstepping permissible use)
251
Case 145
Paul. D 8.1.8 pr. (impermissible content)
252
Case 146
Cels. D 8.3.11 (confirmation through in iure cessio)
253
Case 147
Gai. D 8.2.6 (loss through non-use and usucapio libertatis)
254
Case 148
Pomp. D 8.2.7 (usucapio libertatis)
255
B.
Personal Servitudes
256
a.
Usufructus
256
Case 149
Ulp. D 7.1.68 pr.-2; D 7.1.69 pr. (slave offspring, herds of animals)
256
Case 150
Ulp. D 7.1.12.2 (use through a contract or sale)
259
Case 151
Ulp. D 7.1.15.4 (standard of vir bonus)
260
b.
Usus
261
Case 152
Ulp. D 7.8.2.1; D 7.8.4.1 (house)
261
Case 153
Ulp. D 7.8.12.1 & 2 (land, flock of sheep)
263
Case 154
Pomp. D.7.8.22 (forest)
265
ch. VI
Secured Interests
Introduction
266
A.
Creation and Extinction of Secured Interests
268
a.
Pignus tacitum
268
Case 155
Pomp. D 20.2.7 pr. (leased rural property; fruits)
268
Case 156
Nerat. D 20.2.4 pr. (rental of urban property, inducta et illata)
269
Case 157
Ulp. D 20.2.3 (warehouse, inn, building site; invecta et illata)
271
Case 158
Marci. D 20.2.2 (extent of the security encumbrance: rent, damage)
272
Case 159
Ulp. D 43.32.1 pr. (interdictum de migrando)
274
b.
General Hypothecs and Pledges of Entire Property
275
Case 159
a: Ulp. D 20.1.6 (exceptions)
275
Case 159
b: Scaev. D 20.1.34 pr. & 2 (taberna pledged)
276
c.
Res aliena pignori data
278
Case 160
Mod. D 20.1.22 (owner inherits from secured debtor)
278
Case 161
Paul. D 13.7.41 (secured debtor inherits from owner)
280
Case 161
a: Ulp. D 13.7.9 pr. & 4 (suits on the contract)
282
d.
Consensual Termination of a Security Interest
284
Case 162
Marc. D 20.6.8.14 (secured creditor allows debtor to sell the security)
284
Case 163
Marc. D 20.6.8.15 (creditor tolerates sale by debtor)
285
Case 164
Paul. D 47.2.67 (66) pr. (debtor sells against the creditor's wishes)
286
Case 165
Pomp. D 13.7.3 (creditor returns the security)
287
e.
Repayment of the Debt
288
Case 166
Ulp. D 20.1.19 (pignoris causa indivisa est)
288
f.
Disposition of Security
289
Case 167
Mod. D 20.5.8 (sale of security by the creditor)
289
Case 168
Tryph. D 20.5.12 pr. & D 20.1.16.9 (creditor sells the security)
290
Case 169
Ulp. D 13.7.4 (sale of security without pactum de distrahendo)
293
g.
Loss of Secured Property
294
Case 170
Paul. D 20.1.29 (pledged house destroyed by fire)
294
Case 170
a: Paul. D 13.7.18.3 (forest pledged, ship built)
296
B.
Multiple Pledges
297
a.
Prior tempore potior iure
297
Case 171
Gai. D 20.4.11.4 (ius offerendi et succedendi)
297
Case 172
Tryph. D 20.4.20 (superfluum pledged, contract interpretation)
298
Case 173
Gai. D 20.1.15.2 (contract practice and multiple pledges)
300
Case 174
Afr. D 20.4.9.3 (multiple pledges, no curing)
302
Case 175
Marci. D 20.4.12 pr. (actions and defenses with multiple pledges)
305
Case 176
Ulp. D 20.1.10 (simultaneous multiple pledges)
306
Case 177
Afr. D 20.4.9 pr. & 1 (rank of time-limited and conditional pledges)
307
Case 178
Gai. D 20.4.11.2 (rank of conditional pledge)
309
Case 178
a: Paul. D 20.4.14 (multiple pledges of res aliena)
310
b.
Substitution
311
Case 179
Paul. D 20.3.3 (principles and effects of transfering security obligation)
311
Case 180
Marci. D 20.4.12.9 (transfer and succession)
313
Case 181
Marci. D 20.4.12.8 (contract interpretation)
315
c.
Statutory Security Rights and Priority Privileges
316
Case 182
Ulp. D 20.4.5 (priority privilege for loan to benefit the security)
316
Case 183
Ulp. D 27.9.3 pr. (statutory security interest in favor of pupillus)
317
Case 184
Antonin. C 8.14.2 (security interest of the fisc)
318
Case 185
Ulp. D 49.14.28 (general pledge, seniority of fisc)
319
Appendix
321
Case Analysis of Gai. D 41.1.5.1 (Case 8)
321
Case Analysis of Ulp. D 41.2.13 pr. (Case 47)
324
Index of Sources
326
I.
Pre-Justinianic Sources
326
II.
Justinianic Sources
326
III.
Modern Statutes
329
ABGB (Austrian Civil Code)
329
BGB (German Civil Code)
330
ZGB (Swiss Civil Code)
331
OR (Swiss Law of Obligations)
331
Code Civil (French Civil Code)
331
IV.
Roman Legal Maxims
331
V.
Argumentational Principles and Strategies in Roman Jurists
332
Translator's Glossary of Latin Terms and Phrases
333