Notions of Private Law and Public Law II

Recommended Prerequisites

Average high school knowledge; Notions of Private Law and Public Law II.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and practical lectures on the topics, in dialogue with students. Continuous evaluation, based on students’ in class participation and two written tests (two hours each).

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the basic concepts of private and public law, focusing on the principles, legal constructs and fundamental rules of civil law.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

A. The Civil Code, inner systematization
B. General Part. Legal relation: concept, elements
C. Law of Obligations
1. Contractual relation: concept, structure, elements
2. Sources of obligations
3. Special obligations
4. Credit transfer, debts
5. Securities
6. Performance and non-performance of an obligation
7. Causes for the extinction of obligations beyond performance
D. Property Law
1. Property right: concept, elements
2. Objecto of the property right: the things
3. Possession
4. Property right
5. Limited real ights of enjoyment /use (general concept)
E. Family Law
1. Introduction
2. Marriage law
3. Parentage law
F. Succession Law
1. Introduction: general concept; inheritance and legacy
2. General part: stages of the succession phenomenon
3. Special part: intestate succession, legal/suppletory succession, testamentary succession.

Head Lecturer(s)

Francisco Manuel de Brito Pereira Coelho

Assessment Methods

Continous Assessment
Students’ in class participation: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 80.0%

Bibliography

     Almeida Costa, Mário Júlio, Noções fundamentais de direito civil, 6ª ed., Coimbra, 2013