The digest of Justinian. Vol. 2 / translation edited by Alan Watson

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Alan, 1933-2018, editor, translator.

Series:

The Digest of Justinian ; Volume 2

Standardized Title:

Digesta. English (Watson)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman law--Sources.

Roman law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Edition:

Revised English-language edition

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The most famous and influential collection of legal materials in world history, now available in a four-volume English-language paperback edition.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Content

Book Sixteen

1. The Senatus Consultum Velleianum

2. Set-Off

3. The Action and Contrary Action on Deposit

Book Seventeen

1. The Action on Mandate or the Counteraction

2. Partnership

Book Eighteen

1. Conclusion of the Contract of Purchase, Special Terms Agreed between the Vendor and Purchaser, and Things Which Cannot Be Sold

2. In Diem Addictio

3. The Forfeiture Clause

4. Sale of an Inheritance or of a Right of Action

5. Rescission of a Sale and the Circumstances in Which a Purchase May Be Departed From

6. Risk and Benefit of the Thing Sold

7. Slaves To Be Exported: The Sale of Slaves with a Provision That They Be (or Not Be) Manumitted

Book Nineteen

1. The Actions for Sale and Purchase

2. Lease and Hire

3. The Action for Brokerage

4. Barter

5. The Actio Praescriptis Verbis and the Actio in Factum

Book Twenty

1. Formation and Terms of Pignus and Hypotheca

2. Implied Pignus or Hypotheca

3. Property Which Cannot Be Subject to Pignus or Hypotheca

4. Priority in Pipus or Hypotheca and Displacing an Earlier Creditor

5. Sale of Property Subject to Pignus or Hypotheca

6. Ending a Pzgnus or Hypotheca

Book Twenty-One

1. The Edict of the Aedile, Rescission, and the Action for Diminution

2. Evictions and the Stipulation for Double the Price

3. The Defense That the Thing Has Been Sold and Delivered

Book Twenty-Two

1. Interest, Fruits, Incidentals, Accessions, and Delays

2. Transmarine Loans

3. Proof and Presumptions

4. Documentary Evidence and Loss of Documents

5. Witnesses

6. Mistake of Law and Fact

BookTwenty-Three

1. Betrothals

2. Formation of Marriage

3. The Law of Dowry

4. Dotal Pacts

5. Dotal Land

Book Twenty-Four

1. Gifts between Husband and Wife.

2. Divorces and Repudiations

3. The Recovery of the Dowry on Dissolution of the Marriage

Book Twenty-Five

1. Expenses Incurred in Connection with Dotal Property

2. The Action for Property Unlawfully Removed

3. The Recognition and Maintenance of Children, Parents, Patrons, and Freedmen

4. The Examination of Pregnant Women and the Observation of Delivery

5. Where a Woman Is Placed in Possession on behalf of Her Unborn Child, and This Possession Is Said To Have Been Fraudulently Transferred to Another Person

6. Where A Woman Is Said To Have Obtained Possession on behalf of Her Unborn Child by a False Statement

7 Concubines

Book Twenty-Six

1. Tutelages

2. Testamentary Tutelage

3. The Confirmation in Office of a Tutor or Curator

4. Statutory Tutors

5. Tutors and Curators Appointed by Those Who Have the Power of Appointment, Who May Be Appointed, Special Cases

6. Those Who Request Tutors and When They Are To Be Requested

7. Management by Tutors and Curators and Their Liability, The Question Whether They Act or Not, Suits by or against One or All

8.The Authority and Consent of Tutors and Curators

9. When There Is an Actio in Faetum between Minores and a Tutor or Curator

10. Untrustworthy Tutors and Curators

Book Twenty-Seven

1. Excuses

2. Where the Pupillus Ought To Be Brought Up and Reside and the Provision of Maintenance for Him

3. The Actions on Tutelage and for Liquidation of Accounts and the Actio Utilis for Curatorship

4. The Actio Contraria of Tutelage and the Actio Ulilis

5. One Who Acts Unasked as a Tutor or Curator

6. What Is Alleged To Have Been Done on the Authority of a Supposed Tutor

7. Tutors' and Curators' Verbal Guarantors, Nominators, and Heirs

8. Suits against Magistrates.

9. The Property of Those in Tutelage or Care When There Is No Order for Sale or Exchange

10. Curators Appointed for Lunatics and Others over Age

BookTwenty-Eight

1. Those Who Can Make Wills and How Wills Are Made

2. The Institution of Children and Postumi as Heirs and their Disherison

3. A Will Which Has Not Been Lawfully Made, or Which Has Been Broken or Rendered Ineffectual

4. Matters Which Are Obliterated, Erased, or Written Over in a Will

5. The Institution of Heirs

6. Normal and Pupillary Substitution

7. Conditions on Institutions

8. The Right To Take Time for Consideration

Book Twenty-Nine

1. The Soldier's Will

2. Taking Up or Failing To Take Up an Inheritance

3. How Wills Are Opened, Inspected, and Copied Out

4. Where Someone, Passing Over a Will, Takes Possession of an Inheritance on Intestacy or in Some Other Way

5. The Senatus Cmultum Silunianum and the Senatus Consulturn Claudianum

Those Whose Wills May Not Be Opened

6. If a Person Has F'rohibited Someone from Making a Will or Has Compelled HimTo Make One

7. The Law of Codicils.

Notes:

Originally published 1985 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed on April 24, 2024).

ISBN:

9780812205527

0812205529

OCLC:

833582506