Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law : : British Perspectives / / Paul J. du Plessis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: du Plessis, Paul J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cairns, John W.,; Evans-Jones, Robin,; Ibbetson, David,; Johnston, David,; Lorusso, Alberto,; Mitchell, Paul,; Plessis, Paul J. du,; Sampson, Joe,; Scott, Helen,; Spagnolo, Benjamin,; Valditara, Giuseppe,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

A new assessment of the importance of the lex Aquilia (wrongful damage to property) on Roman law in BritainFew topics have had a more profound impact on the study of Roman law in Britain than the lex Aquilia, a Roman statute enacted c.287/286 BCE to reform the Roman law on wrongful damage to propert...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Part I. Matters of Context
• Chapter 1. The Early Historiography of the Lex Aquilia in Britain: Introducing Students to the Digest
• Chapter 2. William Warwick Buckland on the Lex Aquilia
• Chapter 3. ‘This Concern with Pattern’: F H Lawson’s Negligence in the Civil Law
• Chapter 4. Students’ Digest: 9.2 in Oxford in the Twentieth Century
• Part II. Case Studies
• Chapter 5. Revisiting D.9.2.23.1
• Chapter 6. Reflections on the Quantification of Damnum
• Chapter 7. Causation and Remoteness: British Steps on a Roman Path
• Chapter 8. Roman Law and Civil Law Reflections upon the Meaning of Iniuria in Damnum Iniuria Datum
• Chapter 9. Lord Atkin, Donoghue v Stevenson and the Lex Aquilia: Civilian Roots of the ‘Neighbour’ Principle
• Chapter 10. Conclusions
• Index