Theologians and contract law : the moral transformation of the ius commune (ca. 1500-1650)

Theologians and contract law the moral transformation of the ius commune (ca. 1500-1650)

The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock’s thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the R...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Decock, Wim, 1983- (-)
Other Authors: Decock, Wim, 1983- editor of compilation (editor of compilation)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : M. Nijhoff Publishers 2013.
Series:Legal History Library 9/4.
Subjects:
Contracts (Canon law)
Contracts (Roman law)
Contracts > Europe > History.
Customary law > History.
Liberty of contract > Moral and ethical aspects.
Liberty of contract > Europe > History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758538106719
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Method and Direction
  • 2 Theologians and Contract Law: Contextual Elements
  • 3 Toward a General Law of Contract
  • 4 Natural Limitations on ‘Freedom of Contract’
  • 5 Formal Limitations on ‘Freedom of Contract’
  • 6 Substantive Limitations on ‘Freedom of Contract’
  • 7 Fairness in Exchange
  • 8 Theologians and Contract Law: Common Themes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Terms.

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