The Roman Law Of Obligations

Download or read book The Roman Law of Obligations written by Peter Birks and published by Collected Papers of Peter Birk. This book was released on 2014 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Birks' notes on a series of lectures on the Roman law of obligations delivered in 1982. They give a comprehensive insight into his views on the topic, which are relevant in both a Roman context and also from a modern English perspective. The book examines, in turn, the law of contracts with its general principles and rule applications to the transactions mentioned in the Institutes; the law of delicts; and finally the miscellany of residual obligations from which the later categories of quasi-contracts and quasi-delicts, but also the modern law of unjust enrichment, emerged.