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Genre/Form: | Casebooks (Law) Recueils de cas |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Frier, Bruce W., 1943- A casebook on the roman law of contracts New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021?] (DLC) 2020052634 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce W Frier |
ISBN: | 9780197573211 0197573215 9780197573228 0197573223 |
OCLC Number: | 1226073600 |
Description: | xxi, 538 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Capacity to contract -- Stipulation : a formal contract -- Contracts created through delivery ("real contracts") -- Sale : a contract created through informal agreement -- Other consensual contracts : problems in execution -- Filling in the gaps : contracts created through one party's performance -- Third party rights and responsibilities -- Quasi-contract |
Responsibility: | Bruce W. Frier. |
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This casebook on the Roman law of contracts is a welcome addition to the author's existing body of casebooks on various aspects of Roman private law. It will be an invaluable teaching tool and, like the other casebooks, will no doubt be wildly popular with students and teachers alike. * Paul J. du Plessis, University of Edinburgh * This book fills a gap in the existing selection of Casebooks on Roman private law. Highlights include chapters on individual contracts or types of contracts, such as stipulation, real contracts, sale and the other consensual contracts, plus a series of special problems in this area of the law. The volume offers an unparalleled resource for teaching and research, of interest to classicists as well as to legal and economic historians. * Thomas McGinn, Vanderbilt University * Read more...

