Guia docente 2024_25 Facultade de Ciencias Xurídicas e do Traballo

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Historical introduction to Roman Law	1. Historical evolution of Roman Law. 2. Sources of the Roman Law. 3. The status of the individual.4. The negotium contactum
-The Roman Procedural Law -Real Rights	1. Introduction to the Roman process. 2. The procedure of the legis actiones. 3. The formulary procedure. The phase in iure. The litis contestatio. Structure and content of the formula: ordinary and extraordinary parts. 4. The phase apud iudicem 5. Execution of the sentence 1. Notion of res and its classification. 2.Terminology and types of Roman property. Limitations of the property. 3. Acquisition of property. Primary ways: accession, occupation, acquisition of a treasure, specification, confussio and commixtio, acquisition of fruits 3. Derivative ways: mancipatio, in iure cessio, traditio, usucapio and praescriptio. 4. Defence of the property. Actio reivindicatoria. Other procedural resources. 6. Condominium (co-ownership). 5. Possessio. 6. Servitutes. 7. Ususfructus. Usus and habitatio. 8. Conventio pignoris
-Law of Obligations and Contracts	1. Obligatio. Sources of the obligations: classical and postclassical period. Classes of obligations. 2. Guarantees of obligations. 3. Contracts: general notions. Classes of contracts. 4. Real contracts. 5. Formal contracts: verbal and literal contracts. 6. Consensual contracts. 7. Obligationes ex delicto. Cuasicontracts and cuasidelicts.
-Family and inheritance Law	1. Roman concept of family. The legal situation of the woman in Rome. 2. Inheritance Law: testamentary succession and ab intestato succession.