InstitutionesAN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO ROMAN LAW. Originally published: London: Stevens & Sons, 1882. xiii, lx, 626 pp. With an extensive introduction. In this edition Mears arranged both Institutes in parallel columns to facilitate comparisons. Passages copied from Gaius are printed in italics. The two Novels, which deal with intestate succession, are included because they supplanted the sections on that subject in Justinian's Institutes. "[A] concise and practical vade meecum for the student of Roman Law at the Universities and Inns of Court." --8 Law Magazine and Review 5th Series (1882-1883) 107. THOMAS LAMBERT MEARS [1839-1918] was a barrister of the Inner Temple and legal writer who taught at the University of London. Some of his notable works are Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian (1876), and A Treatise on the Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice of the High Court of Justice (1903). |
Contents
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| ix | |
| xvii | |
| xx | |
| xxiv | |
| xxvi | |
| xxxvii | |
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De iis per quos agere possumus | 226 |
De exceptionibus | 232 |
De poena temere litigantium | 244 |
the reasons | 265 |
108115K Of marital power | 279 |
released from the power of others | 286 |
Of the tutorship by law of patrons | 297 |
Of the extinction of the tutorship | 303 |
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| 39 | |
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| 48 | |
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174 | 88 |
mantur mantur | 95 |
268 | 121 |
Liber iii | 124 |
De senatusconsulto Tertulliano | 133 |
39 | 140 |
De successionibus sublatis quro | 155 |
I35I38 De consensu obligatione | 169 |
xxiii | 170 |
xxvi | 176 |
i63i67A Per quas personas nobis obligatio | 180 |
De vi bonorum raptorum | 192 |
Commentarius iv | 200 |
Of suspected tutors or curators | 309 |
Of corporeal and incorporeal things | 323 |
163167A Of the persons through whom xxviii | 340 |
Of a soldiers testament | 349 |
Of legacies | 385 |
Of the revocation and transference | 396 |
Of specific things bequeathed | 405 |
Book iii | 411 |
Of the succession by law of agnates | 418 |
Of the Orphitian decree of | 424 |
Of the succession of freedmen | 432 |
Of the assignment of freedmen | 442 |
Of acquisition by arrogation | 448 |
in writing | 469 |
delicts | 509 |
__ Of formula | 535 |
Of replications | 555 |
Of the penalties on rash litigation | 567 |
Of public prosecutions | 573 |
NOVELS | 609 |
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Common terms and phrases
actiones agere alia alii aliquid apud autem bona bonorum casu causa civili cujus dare debet diximus dominus eadem earn ejus enim eorum erat erit esse esset etiam facere fieri filia filio filius fuerit Gaius gradu habere habet haec heredem heredes hereditas hereditatem heres idem ideo Institutes inter ipse Itaque Item jure juris Justinian legatis legatum lege liberi licet loco locum modo neque nihil nisi nobis nomine omnes partem patris persona posse possessionem possit possunt postea potest praetor propter quae quam quamvis quia quibus quid quidem quis quod quoque ratione recte Romani scilicet secundum servo servus sibi sine sint sive slave solum suam sunt tamen tantum tempore testamento testator tibi tione tunc tutela tutor veluti vero videtur
Popular passages
Page xxix - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 3 - Publicum ius est quod ad statum rei Romanae spectat, privatum quod ad singulorum utilitatem: sunt enim quaedam publice utilia, quaedam privatim.
Page xxix - The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded involuntary respect.
Page 102 - Ea quoque res quae in rerum natura non est, si modo futura est, per damnationem legari potest, velut: FRUCTUS QUI IN ILLO FUNDO NATI ERUNT, aut: QUOD EX ILLA ANCILLA NATUM ERIT. (204) Quod autem ita legatum est, post aditam hereditatem, etiamsi pure legatum est, non, ut per vindicationem legatum, continuo legatario adquiritur, sed nihilo minus heredis est. Et ideo legatarius in personam agere debet, id est intendere heredem sibi dare oportere...
Page 202 - Sed quia sane durum erat eo casu deficere actionem, inventa est a praetore actio, in qua dicit is, qui possessionem amisit, earn rem se usu cepisse et ita vindicat suam esse. Quae acti'o Publiciana appellatur, quoniam primum a Publicio praetore in edicto proposita est.
Page 179 - Igitur cum quis absentis negotia gesserit, ultro citroque inter eos nascuntur actiones, quae appellantur negotiorum gestorum : sed domino quidem rei gestae adversus eum qui gessit directa competit actio, negotiorum autem gestori contraria. quas ex nullo contractu proprie nasci manifestum est : quippe ita nascuntur istae actiones, si sine mandato quisque alienis negotiis gerendis se optulerit : ex qua causa ii quorum negotia gesta fuerint etiam ignorantes obligantur.
Page 172 - ... quidquid enim sine dolo et culpa venditoris accidit, in eo venditor securus est. sed et si post emptionem fundo aliquid per alluvionem accessit, ad emptoris commodum pertinet : nam et commodum...
Page 311 - By the law of nature these things are common to mankind — the air, running water, the sea, and consequently the shores of the sea.
Page 67 - Mortis causa donatio est, quae propter mortis fit suspicionem, cum quis ita donat, ut, si quid humanitus ei contigisset, haberet is qui accepit: sin autem supervixisset qui donavit, reciperet, vel si eum donationis poenituisset aut prior decesserit is cui donatum sit.
Page 105 - Martium vel basilicas vel templa vel quae publico usui destinata sunt legaverit : nam nullius momenti legatum est. quod autem diximus alienam rem posse legari, ita intellegendum est, si defunctus sciebat alienam rem esse, non et si ignorabat : forsitan enim, si scisset alienam, non legasset.