The Historical Foundations of Grotius' Analysis of Delict

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34436-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24/13, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

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

The Historical Foundations of Grotius’ Analysis of Delict explores the origins of a generalised model of liability for wrongdoing in the history of European private law. Using Grotius as its focal point, it analyses the extent to which earlier civilian and theological doctrine shaped his views. It divides Grotius’ approach into three elements – the infringement of a right, fault, and remediation – and traces the development of parallel concepts in earlier traditions. It argues that Grotius was influenced by the writings of Thomists to a far greater extent than has previously been acknowledged, virtually eclipsing any sign of civilian influence except where Romanist learning had already been incorporated into theological doctrine.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sampson, Joe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction
1 The Place of Grotius in European Private Law
2 Grotius’ Formulation of Delict
The General Definition
Remediation
The Harm Element
Responsibility
Conclusion
Part II. The Civil Law
3 The Roman Law of Delicts
Delict and Crime
The Delicts as Conduct-Centric Wrongs
Piecemeal Doctrine and Historical Patchwork
A Plurality of Fault Concepts
The Narrowness of the Interests Protected by Delict
Gaps in the Roman Law of Delicts
Barriers to Generalisation
4 Delict in the Middle Ages
A Chronological Overview of Delict in the Middle Ages
Fault and Diligence
Doctrinal Developments in the Lex Aquilia
Iniuria
Conclusion
5 Delict in the Sixteenth Century
Delict and the Mainstream of ‘Legal’ Humanism
Individual Strands within Sixteenth-Century Delictual Scholarship
Donellus and the Generalisation of Delictual Scholarship
The Procedural Bias of Earlier Movements towards the Generalisation of Delict
Conclusion
Part III. Grotius’ Thomist Sources
6 The Foundations of Thomism
Praise, Blame and Responsibility
Justice as a Virtue
Aristotelianism and Roman Law in Spain
7 ‘Delict’ in the Summa Theologiae
The Structure of Wrongdoing
Commutative Justice and Restitutio
Individual Sins
Voluntariness
Voluntariness and Restitutio
Responsibility and Agency
Conclusion
8 The Mechanics of Restitutio
Wrongdoing as the Primary Source of Inequality
Commensurability
The Problem of Priorities
Actual and Hypothetical Losses
Excusing Restitutio: Impossibility and Disproportionate Hardship
Conclusion
9 Sins, Wrongs and Rights
From Specific Wrongs to Protected Interests
The Development of Individual Wrongs
From Wrongs to Rights
10 Roman Law and Thomism
The Rise of Fault within Thomism
A Syncretic Legal Culture?
Part IV. Conclusion
11 The Historical Foundations of Grotius’ Analysis of Delict
Remediation
Responsibility
Loss and Harm
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joe Sampson, Ph.D. (2016) is the David Li Fellow in Law at Selwyn College in the University of Cambridge.