DOTPV_RPV Roman Law - Iura in Re and Law of Succession

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. JUDr. Pavel Salák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Mgr. Radek Černoch, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Pavel Salák, Ph.D.
Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! DO3RIPR02 Roman Law - Iura in Re
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Apart from the definition of a thing, the course focuses on the institutes of real rights – possession, ownership and real rights to things belonging to a third person, and on the importance, function and institutes of the Roman law of inheritance (especially focuses on the testament and the intestate succession, however also gives attention to other institutes mortis causa).
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students will be able to;
Characterize the specifics of the real rights and specific;
Explain the development of specific institutes;
Explain the development of the inheritance law in Rome considering the social changes;
Characterize specific institutes of the law of inheritance;
Describe relationships between these institutes;
Analyse the circumstances in which these institutes were developed.
Syllabus
  • Res
  • Possessio
  • Dominium, proprietas
  • Iura in re aliena
  • Hereditas anad bonorum possessio
  • Testament and intestacy
  • Legatum and Fideicommissum
  • Other dispositions mortis causa
  • Position of the Heir and the Legatee
Literature
    required literature
  • SALÁK, Pavel. Combination and accrual. In Salák Pavel, Horák Ondřej et al. Law of Succession in the Middle-European Area. 1. vyd. Cracow: Spolok Slovákov v Poľsku – Towarzystwo Słowaków, 2015, p. 107-115. ISBN 978-83-7490-848-1. info
  • SOMMER, Otakar. Učebnice soukromého práva římského. Edited by Jiří Spáčil. 2. nezměn. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2011, 356 s. ISBN 9788073576165. info
    recommended literature
  • JUSTINIÁN, Theodor MOMMSEN a Paul KRÜGER. Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Vol. I. Berolini: Apud Weidmannos, 1868.
  • DAJCZAK, Wojciech, Tomasz GIARO and Franciszek LONGCHAMPS DE BÉRIER. Právo římské : základy soukromého práva. Translated by Petr Dostalík. 1. vyd. (české). Olomouc: Iuridicum Olomoucense, 2013, 423 s. ISBN 9788087382417. info
  • LONGCHAMPS DE BÉRIER, Franciszek. Law of succession : Roman legal framework and comparative law perspective. 1st ed. Warszawa: Lex, 2011, 289 s. ISBN 9788326414688. info
  • STEIN, Peter. Roman law in European history. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, ix, 137. ISBN 9780521643795. info
Teaching methods
As a teaching method, there is an individual study of assigned expert literature and eventually individual expert consultations with lecturers.
Assessment methods
Analysis of a chosen fragment and a discussion.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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