Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
1 - What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
A Scientific Method and a Vast Inventory of Property Concepts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The first chapter examines the reasons that the led nineteenth-century liberal jurists who sought to modernize property to turn to Roman antiquity for inspiration. In Roman law, jurists found a powerful idea of legal scientific method, a professional role model, a large inventory of ostensibly apolitical doctrines produced by jurists of a distant and revered age.
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- The Making of Modern PropertyReinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950, pp. 39 - 97Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023