Unit INSITUTES OF ROMAN LAW
- Course
- Law
- Study-unit Code
- A005536
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Marialuisa Navarra
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Storico-giuridico
- Academic discipline
- IUS/18
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
INSITUTES OF ROMAN LAW - Cognomi A-L
| Code | A005536 |
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| CFU | 8 |
| Teacher | Marialuisa Navarra |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Storico-giuridico |
| Academic discipline | IUS/18 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Roman Law of persons, succession, things, obligations, procedure. |
| Reference texts | M. TALAMANCA, Elementi di diritto privato romano, Giuffrè, Milano 2013, II edizione |
| Educational objectives | Basic knowledge of the institutes of the Roman civil law and procedure. Acquisition of skills in the use of terminology and legal categories. Development of the analytical capacity of legal issues. |
| Prerequisites | In order to understand the topics of the course and to achieve the aims of the learning, students must have a basic general culture and an essential knowledge in anciente history. |
| Teaching methods | The course is organized as follows: - face-to-face lectures with slides projection; - study support materials made available online by the lecturer on UniStudium platform. |
| Other information | For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists in an oral test aimed to verify knowledge and understanding of the topics of the subject, as well as to evaluate the ability in reasoning and argumenting. The duration of the test may vary according to the ability of the student. Attending students, if so desire, can make a supplementary reading which will be taken into consideration in the final evaluation. |
| Extended program | The course will be focus on persons, property, obligations and procedure. Short notes on succession mortis causa. Direct contact with sources (also in Italian translation proposals) will introduce the knowledge of certain structures of legal reasoning, the principles and values that have guided the Roman jurists. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | Goal 4; Goal 16. |
INSITUTES OF ROMAN LAW - Cognomi M-Z
| Code | A005536 |
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| CFU | 8 |
| Teacher | Carlo Lorenzi |
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| Hours |
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| Learning activities | Base |
| Area | Storico-giuridico |
| Academic discipline | IUS/18 |
| Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
| Language of instruction | Italian |
| Contents | Private roman law and sourses of roman law of the four periods of the roman history: monarchy, republic, principate, dominate. Legal acts; Roman civil trial; law of persons and family; real rights; law of contracts; the delicts according to the ius civile and the praetor's edict. Law of succession (elements). |
| Reference texts | DALLA D.-LAMBRTINI R., Istituzioni di diritto romano, III ed., Giappichelli, Torino 2006; or DALLA L.-LAMBERTINI R., Istituzioni di diritto romano, III ed., Giappichelli, Torino 2006. Teaching materials made available on UniStudium. |
| Educational objectives | Knowledge of the institutes of the roman civil law and procedure and sources of roman law. Acquisition of skills in the use of terminology and legal categories. Development of the analytical capacity of legal issues. |
| Prerequisites | In order to understand the topics of the course and to achieve the aims of the learning, students must have a basic general culture and an essential knowledge in anciente history. |
| Teaching methods | The course is organized as follows: - face-to-face lectures with slides projection; - study support materials made available online by the lecturer on UniStudium platform; - theoretical/practical lecture to guide the study of the Institutions of Roman Law textbook. |
| Other information | Seminars and integrative readings can be agreed with attending students. Students reception. |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists in an oral test aimed to verify knowledge and understanding of the topics of the subject, as well as to evaluate the ability in reasoning and argumenting. The duration of the test may vary according to the ability of the student. For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa |
| Extended program | Roman private law in the four periods of the roman history: monarchy (753-509 BC), republic (509-31 BC), principate (31 BC-285 AD), dominate (AD 285-565). Legal acts and the status of persons within the legal system: status libertatis, civitatis, familiae (persons sui iuris (patres familias) and alieni iuris subiectae (filii familias), actiones adiecticiae qualitatis (=actions against filii familias and slaves to protect the creditors of those persons iuris subiectae), legal persons. Roman civil trial: legis actiones (agere = to proceed against somebody pronouncing predefined formulas), lawsuit per formulas (agere=to proceed against somebody pronouncing formulas set by the magistrate which can be changed), since the second half of the third century BC.; cognitio extra ordinem (new form of process after the enactment of the lex Iulia of 17 BC, which reformed the ordo (=system) iudiciorum privatorum (=agere per formulas)). Family law (marriage, divorce, emancipation, adoption, different kinds of protection of the persons sui iuris younger than fourteen years or twentyfive years). The goods. Rights on the res = on the good = real rights: 1) the right on own good (various forms of property) and the right to use other's good (=ius in re aliena: praedial servitude (praedium = estate), usufruct, quasiusufrutto, surface, ground rent), 2) assurance (fiducia cum creditore=to guarantee the creditor transfering him an estate free of charge, pledge and mortgage). Modes of acquisition of real rights. Protection of property and formula arbitraria (relative to a kind of lawsuit based on the order of the private judge to the defendant to restitute the owed good). Possession and protection of possession. Definition of obligation; sources of obligations (contracts and crimes first, then contracts, crimes and other kind of causes, finally, contracts, crimes, quasi-contracts and quasi-delicts). Classification of contracts (based on the good's delivery, on a oral form, on a written form, on mutual consent without any form); covenants. Delicta: distinction between delict=delictum (private prosecution with a lawsuit) and crime (prosecution with a criminal trial). The delicts punished according to ius civile, the delicts punished according to edict of the praetor. Guarantees; ways of extinguishing obligations, criteria of liability of the debtor (intent, negligence, custody). Elements of inheritance law. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | Goal 4; Goal 16. |