Contracts – Part II: Consensual Contracts, Quasi-Contracts
JUDr. Mgr. Radek Černoch, Ph.D., Department of the History of the State and Law
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Division of Contracts
§Verbal
§Literary
§Real
§Consensual
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§Quasi

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Consensual Contracts
§Emptio venditio
§Locatio conductio
§Societas
§Mandatum
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Emptio venditio
§Informal (but immovables written since Constantine the Great)
§Titulus adquirendi (sc. Modus must follow)
§Periculum est emptoris (cf. Casum sentit dominus), a. empti
§Deliver the thing (rem tradere)+evictio, a. venditi
§Laesio enormis, a. redhibitoria, a. quanti minoris
§Pacta adiecta: pactum displicentiae, lex comissoria,…
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Locatio conductio (Letting and Hiring)
§Locator lets out his thing/his services/completion of his work to conductor
§A. locati, a. conducti
§L. c. rei (conductor pays rent)
§Relocatio/reconductio tacita
§L. c. operarum (locator works in person)
§L. c. operis (locator orders and gives material, conductor assures the work to be done)
§Lex Rhodia de iactu (jettison)

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Societas (Partnership)
§Not a legal person
§2+ socii share loss and profit (not societas leonina)
§Societas omnium bonorum/unius rei
§Termination:
§Ex voluntate (agreement, time elapses, partnership renounced)
§Ex rebus (aim achieved/achieving impossible)
§Ex personis (death)
§Ex actione (a. pro socio)
§Bankruptcy of partner (under Justinian)

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Mandatum (Mandate)
§No payment (but honorarium can be enforced via a. in factum)
§Mandatum mea/alinei gratia, not tua gratia, not post mortem
§A. mandati directa/contraria
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§Mandatum qualificatum  (connected with mutuum, but not accessorial unlike fideiussio)

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Quasi contracts
§Legatum per damnationem/sinendi modo
§Negotiorum gestio
§A. negotiorum gestorum directa/contraria
§Votum (see VSLM),…

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Are There Any Questions?
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