Consensual contracts (contractus consensu) were contracts constituted by the mere agreement (consensus) of the parties.
These contracts were binding as soon as the parties agreed on the basic essentials (essentialia) of the contract. Unlike the other categories of contract, no further formalities were required such as the transfer of a thing, formal words or writing.
According to both Gaius and Justinian, there were four types of consensual contract: purchase and sale (emptio venditio), letting and hiring (locatio conductio), partnership (societas) and mandate (mandatum). These forms all originated from the ius gentium and were, therefore, negotia bonae fidei .[740]The consensual contracts were central to Roman commercial life and are of great importance to modern law since some of the most significant legal institutions of today are based on this form of contract.
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- Verbal contracts (contractus verbis)were contracts that were created by the use of certain formal words (verbis solemnibus).
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- All contracts involve agreement.
- The first group of informal contracts were those consensu, four of them.
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- Real contracts (contractus re) were agreements that became operative and binding on the transfer of possession or physical control of a tangible thing (res corporalis).
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