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UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA
PROGRAM OF PRINCIPLES OF ROMAN PRIVATE LAW
(ISTITUZIONI DI DIRITTO ROMANO) (A-L) (9 crediti)
PROF. ANTONIO SACCOCCIO
2020-2021

AIM OF THE COURSE
The course is intended to highlight the birth, development and dogmatic configuration of private law in the various areas in which Roman legal experience was carried on, with particular reference to the historical context in which they arose, to their historical dynamics, and also to the impact that this evolution may have had on the modern configuration of the institutes.

PROGRAM
Law (ius) and justice (iustitia). The law and his partitions: public and private law; civil law, law of foreigners (ius gentium), natural law; civil law, honorary law. Sources of production of law: laws, plebiscites, senatusconsulta, constitutions of the emperors, edicts of magistrates, lawyers' opinions, customs and mores.
2. Persons.
3. Legal transactions (negozio giuridico).
4. The civil trial.
5. Real Rights.
6. Obligations.
7. Donations.
8. Successions.

RECOMMENDED TEXT:
1) M. MARRONE, Istituzioni di diritto romano, Palermo, Palumbo editore, last edition.

or

G. PUGLIESE (con la coll. di F. Sitzia e L. Vacca), Istituzioni di diritto romano. Sintesi, Giappichelli ed., Torino, 1998 2. edizione