András Földi — Gábor Hamza HISTORY AND INSTITUTES OF ROMAN LAW

András Földi — Gábor Hamza

HISTORY AND INSTITUTES OF ROMAN LAW

The most important Hungarian textbook

of Roman law for hundred years

This textbook succeeds the manual of Roman law written by Róbert Brósz and Elemér Pólay, first published in 1974. The new work of András Földi and Gábor Hamza offers a more extensive treatment not only than that of the textbook which it succeeds, but also than the two-volume, 1941 manual of Kálmán Személyi. In its detailed treatment of the subsequent history of Roman law it can only be compared to the classical work of Tamás Vécsey, the last edition of which appeared in 1907.

The treatise, as suggested by its title, presents the history and the institutes (i.e. the classical material) of Roman law. The historical part, however, does not deal exclusively with governmental orga­nization and the legal sources of ancient Rome, but also traces in detail the continuous presence of Roman law in different contem­porary legal systems.

The structure of the textbook is as follows:

·      History and subsequent fate of Roman law

·      Procedural law, including an outline of criminal procedure

·      Law of persons and family law

·      Law of things (Law of property)

·      Law of obligations, with an appendix on criminal law

·      Law of succession

The textbook includes an extensive bibliography, as well as three detailed indexes comprising more than 3000 entries.

Orders are to be directed to the Publisher:

Oktatáskutató és Fejlesztő Intézet

1143 Budapest, Szobránc utca 6–8.

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