An Analysis of the civil law in which a comparison is occasionally made between the Roman laws and those of England / by Samuel Hallifax ; edited by James William Geldart.

Cambridge : Stevenson, 1836

Revised edition

7801

Civil law.

Roman law.

Law -- Great Britain.

Roman civil law.

Book I: Of the rights of persons

I. Of the roman civil and canon laws, and their authority in England

II. Of law in general; and of the divisions and parts of the civil and English laws

III. Of persons in general; and of freemen and slaves

IV. Of citizens and strangers; natives and aliens; by the roman and English laws

V. Of the power of the father

VI. Of marriage

VII. Of legitimation

VIII. Of adoption.

IX. Of guardianship

X. Of corporations

Book II: Of the rights of things

I. Of property in general

II. Of the natural modes of acquiring property

III. Of rights or things incorporeal; and of real and personal services

IV. Of the persons, by whom property might be acquired; and of the peculium of a son under power

V. Of the civil modes of acquiring property; and, first of usucapion or prescription; and of donation

VI. Of succession by testament

VII. Of legacies

VIII. Of fidei-commissa, or bequests in trust

IX. OF SUCCESSION BY law

X. Of the succession of the liberti

XI. Of succession by the bonorum possessio granted by the prætor

XII. Of the acquisition of property by arrogation; and other civil modes of acquiring, mentioned in the institutions

XIII. Of obligations in general

XIV. Of obligations ex contractu, or from contracts properly so called

XV. Of real contracts

XVI. Of verbal contracts

XVII. Of literal contracts

XVIII. Of consensual contracts

XIX. Of obligations quasi ex contractu, or from improper contracts

XX. Of the ways by which obligations arising from proper and improper contracts, were dissolved

XXI. Of obligations ex delicto, or from offences properly so called

XXII. Of furtum, or theft

XXIII. Of rapina, or robbery

XXIV. Of damnum, or damage

XXV. Of injuria, or injury

XXVI. Of obligations quasi ex delicto, or from improper offences

Book III: Of actions

I. Of actions in general, and their several kinds

II. Of actions arising from the contracts of others and of noxal actions

III. Of the persons, by and against whom actions might be brought; and of the cautions, or securities, demanded from them

IV. Of actions perpetual and temporary

V. Of exceptions and replications

VI. Of interdicts

VII. Of the methods, by which the temerity of litigants was restrained

VIII. Of the office of a judge

IX. Of the form of private judgments, or the course of proceeding in civil causes, according to the roman law

X. Of the courts in England, in which the civil law is permitted to be used

XI. Of the course of proceeding in the ecclesiastical courts, and courts of the two universities, in England

XII. Of public judgments

XIII. Of the form of public judgments, or the course of proceeding in criminal causes; and of judgments of the people; according to the roman law.

Includes index.

xxxv, 226 pages ; 23 cm