Roman Law

Recommended Prerequisites

Roman law. 1 and 2. Cycle of studies in law; Latin.

Learning Outcomes

The Roman Law Seminar aims at providing PhD students with skills for mastering research methods that will allow them to conduct studies based on sources of roman law knowledge (maxime, the Corpus Iuris Civilis). The chosen theme – «Solidary obligations in Roman Law» - provides a privileged field of application for such methods, especially the method for historical criticism of sources. This is due to the existence of Justinian imperial constitutions that change many aspects of the classical subject of these obligations, with a resulting modification of the texts to which the subject report.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theme: «Solidary obligations in Roman law»

1. Introduction

1.1. Sources of knowledge in Roman Law and the need for a relevant critical analysis

1.1.1.  Fontes cognoscendi of Roman Law (special reference to Corpus Iuris Civilis, to its constituent parts, to the divisions that exist in each of these parts and to the quoting method);

1.1.2. The need for a critical study of these sources.

1.2. The authenticity of an appeal to the current law dogmatics

2. Solidary obligations and other modes of obligations with plurality of subjects

2.1. The concept of solidary obligation

2.2. Shared obligations

2.3. Cumulative obligations

3. Types of solidarity

4. Appeals for solidarity

5, Sources of solidarity

6. Legal regime for solidary obligations. Relationship between the solidary debtor who fulfilled his obligations and the others, and between the solidary creditor to whom the installment was due and the others

6.1. In classical law

6.1.1. The absence of the right to recourse

6.1.2. Legal remedies for the debtor who fulfilled his obligations and for the creditor for whom the obligation was not performed

6.2. In Justinian law

6.2.1. The doctrinal discussion on whether or not the right to recourse exists

6.2.2. Evolution of the available legal remedies in classical law

7. Extinction of the solidary obligations

7.1. In classical law

7.1.1. The extinctive effect of litis contestation

7.1.2. Other causes of extinction

7.2. In Justinian law

7.2.1. The abolition of the preclusive or consumptive effect of litis contestatio and the demand for an effective payment for extinguishing the obligation

7.2.2. Registered evolution as regards other causes of extinction

Head Lecturer(s)

António Santos Justo

Bibliography

ALBERTARIO, Emilio. Corso di Diritto Romano: Le obbligazioni solidali. Milano, 1948.

 

ALVES, José Carlos Moreira, Direito Romano. 14.ª edição. Rio de Janeiro, 2008. págs. 389 segs.

 

ARCHI Gian Gualberto. Corso di diritto romano: Le obbligazioni solidali. Pavia-Milano, 1947.

 

ARCHI Gian Gualberto. Sul concetto di obbligazione solidale, in Conferenze romane a ricordo di Castelli, Milano, 1940.

 

 BONFANTE, Pietro. Il concetto unitario della solidarietà, in Scritti giuridici,III, Torino, 1921, 209 e segs. 

 

ARCHI Gian Gualberto, La solidarietà classica delle obbligazioni indivisibili, in Scritti giuridici,III, Torino, 1921, 368 segs.

 

ARCHI Gian Gualberto. Solidarietà o mutua fideiussione?, in Scritti giuridici,IV, Roma, 1925, 568 e segs. COLINET, Paul, Le pseudo-bénéfice de division dês debiteurs solidaires romains, in Studi in Memoria di Aldo Albertoni, vol. I (Padova, 1935), págs. 271 segs. 

 

CORRÊA, Alexandre Augusto de Castro. As obrigações solidárias em Direito Romano, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito de S. Paulo, 55 (1960), págs. 197-240.

 

CRUZ, Sebastião, Direito Romano, I. Fontes. 4.ª edição. Coimbra, 1984, págs. 240-242, 403-493 e 509-523;

 

CURA, António Alberto Vieira. Fiducia cum creditore (Aspectos gerais), in Suplemento ao Boletim da Faculdade de Direito, vol. XXXIV (1991), págs. 123-146.

 

CURA, António Alberto Vieira. Mora debitoris no direito romano clássico. Contributo para o seu estudo, polic. Coimbra, 2003. págs. 9-36;

 

JUSTO, António dos Santos. Direito Privado Romano – II (Direito das Obrigações). 3.ªedição. Coimbra, 2008. págs. 160-165 e 218-221;

 

LONGO, Carlo. Corso di Diritto Romano: Obbligazioni (Ambulatorie, alternative, generiche, solidali, indivisibili). Milano, 1936. págs. 156 segs;

 

MASI, Antonio. Solidarietà (Diritto Romano), in Novissimo Digesto Italiano, vol. XVII (Torino, 1970), págs. 830 segs.;

 

MASI, Gustavo Cintra Paaschaus. Das obrigações solidárias no Direito Romano. Unidade ou pluralidade?, Recife, 1954;

 PROVERA, Giuseppe. Una costituzione dioclezianea in tema di solidarietà e regresso – C.I. 8.39[40].1[2], in Sodalitas. Studi in onore di António Guarino, vol. V, Napoli, 1984, págs. 2491-2506 (disponível em http://www.ledonline.it//rivistadiritto romano/scrittiprovera.html).

 PROVERA, Giuseppe. Riflessioni in tema di «beneficium cedendarum actionum», in Studi in onore di Cesare Sanfilippo, vol. IV, Milano, 1983, págs. 609 e segs.

SACCONI, Giuseppina. Studi sulle obbligazioni solidali da contratto in diritto romano. Milano, 1973.