Course: Roman Law 2

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Course title Roman Law 2
Course code KPD/9ŘP2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Černý Miroslav, Doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Dostalík Petr, Doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Clarifying the importance of study of Roman law for non-lawyers today. After a brief historical introduction will discuss the individual legal institutions classical Roman private law with regard to developments in the period of pre-classical and Justinian. Interpretation focuses on the core themes (sources of production and learning, subjects of rights, objects, rights, legal negotiations, the Roman legal process), and on the fundamental institutions of the Roman private law (debenture, inheritance, family). WINTER TERM Lectures: 1. Three types of Roman ownership: civilian, provincial, praetorian 2. The original ways of acquiring ownership rights: occupatio, accessio, specificatio, confusio, adiudicatio, litis aestimatio, adquisitio fructuum 3. Derivation of the means of acquiring property rights: in iure cessio, mancipatio, traditio, usucapio, praescriptio Longi temporis 4. Legal means of protection of property rights: rei vindicatio, actiones, interdicta 5. Consortium, condominium: development of the institute of ownership in Roman law 6. servitude: servitutes praediorum rusticorum and servitutes praediorum urbanorum; ususfructus; legal protection of servitude and usufruct 7. Emfyteusis and surface; rem warranty rights: pledge and mortgage; possessio and quasi-possessio 8. Bonds: definitions and different kinds of bonds; possibility of the creation, liquidation and transfer of bonds in RP 9. Contracts real, formal and consensual 10. Pactum, quasi-contracts 11. Delinquencies and quasi-delicts 12. Roman Law of Succession The seminars: 1. Property relations in the Roman marriage 2. Divorce; concubitus and contubernium 3. Patria potestas - its meaning and content acquisition 4. Persones sui iuris 5. Tutela and Cura 4th Father's power over slaves and those in causa mancipii 5. Persons sui iuris with reduced legal negotiations: tutela, cura

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Practicum
  • Contact hours - 18 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 18 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 40 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
No particular prerequisites specified.
teaching methods
Lecture
Practicum
assessment methods
Test
Continuous assessment
Recommended literature
  • Bartošek, Milan. Encyklopedie římského práva. Praha : Academia, 1994. ISBN 80-200-0243-X.
  • Gaius. Učebnice práva ve čtyřech knihách. Plzeň : Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7380-054-3.
  • Kincl, Jaromír; Urfus, Valentin. Římské právo. 1. vydání. Praha : Panorama, 1990. ISBN 80-7038-134-5.


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