Specific Performance in German, French and Dutch Law in the Nineteenth Century

Remedies in an Age of Fundamental Rights and Industrialisation
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19605-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4/2, 638 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1202 g

Reihe: Legal History Library / Studies in the History of Private Law

The current French, German and Dutch Law of Contract each offer a remedy of specific performance to creditors suffering from breach of contract. This book analyses the alterations to this remedy during the nineteenth century on the substantive, procedural and enforcement levels. Fascinatingly, there is a link between changes to the remedy and the development of early human rights and the mass industrialisation of society. The latter had the effect of actually converging the national remedies of specific performance in the examined systems: damages and rescission became more accessible as remedies at the cost of specific performance. The book demonstrates the interdependency between law and society and provides vital background information to the harmonisation of a controversial concept in the European Law of Obligations.

Studies in the History of Private Law, vol. 2

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oosterhuis, Janwillem

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Abbreviations

1. Introduction
1.1 The subject of this study
1.2 Methodology
1.3 Structure

2. Specific Performance before the 19th Century
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Roman Law
2.3 Glossators, Commentators and Canonists
2.4 Customary law, Early Modern Scholasticism and Legal Humanism
2.5 Roman-Dutch law and Roman-Frisian law
2.6 Early Modern Natural law and the usus modernus pandectarum
2.7 Specific Performance versus Nemo praecise

3. Specific performance as Primary Remedy
3.1 Introduction
3.2 German Ius Commune
3.3 Prussia and the Allgemeines Landrecht (1794)
3.4 France and the Code civil (1804)
3.5 The Rhine Province, Baden and the Code civil
3.6 The Netherlands, Roman-Dutch law and the Code civil
3.7 Comparison

4. Damages as Rule
4.1 Introduction
4.2 German Confederation (1815–1866)
4.3 German Empire (1871–1918)
4.4 France and Belgium
4.5 The Netherlands
4.6 Comparison

5. Specific Performance as an Exceptional Remedy
5.1 Introduction
5.2 France and Belgium
5.4 German Empire
5.5 Comparison

6. Summary and Conclusions

Bibliography
Works before 1900
19th Century Judicial Reviews
Works after 1900

Index of Names
Index of Sources
Index of Cases

Über Autor(innen)

Janwillem Oosterhuis, PhD (2011) in Law, VU University Amsterdam, is Lecturer in Legal History at Maastricht University. He has published previously on the history of the law of obligations, e.g. Industrialization and Specific Performance in the German Territories during the 19th Century (Intersentia, 2010).