Abstract
This volume, the first in the Collected Papers of Peter Birks series, contains notes on a series of lectures on the Roman law of obligations which were delivered in Edinburgh in 1982. Their posthumous publication gives, for the first time, a comprehensive insight into Birks’ views on the topic, which are relevant not only in a Roman context but also from a modern English perspective. The book examines, in turn, the law of contracts with its general principles and the rules applicable to each of the transactions mentioned in the Institutes; then the law of delicts with its three main pillars (theft, loss wrongfully caused and iniuria-contempt); finally the miscellany of residual obligations from which the later categories of quasi-contracts and quasi-delicts, but also the modern law of unjust enrichment, emerged.
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