Contents

Abbreviations xv

Introduction xix

Lecture 1: The End of an Era: Transformation of

Scholarship in Roman Law

I. The Natural Law Codifications and Roman Law 1

1. Effects of Codification in General 1

2.

3. Prussia 4

4. Austria 5

II. Legal Unity in Germany: Pandectist Legal

Scholarship and the Civil Code 6

1. The 'Third Renaissance of Roman Law' in the

Nineteenth Century 6

2. The Development in the Twentieth Century

(Overview) 8

III. 1 listorical Legal Scholarship in the Nineteenth

Century 11

1. The Vital Connection between Present and Past 11

2. The Role of Roman Law 13

3. The Question of Codification 14

IV. Historical Legal Scholarship and Legal History 18

1. Identification of the 'Pure' Roman Private

Law 18

2. The Neglect of the More Recent History of

Private Law 20

V. Roman Law as Legal History 22

1. The Reconstruction of the Classical Law Texts 22

2. 'Imperial Law and Vulgar Law' and the

Consequences 25

(fl) Ludwig Mitteis 25

(£») 'In Ludwig Mitteis' School' 27

(c) The Generation of the Academic

Grandsons 31

3. Emil Seckel and his Pupils 33

4. Balance Sheet 36

5. Advancement of Legal Training under the

Austrian Monarchy 38

6. Parallel Developments in Germanic Legal

History 39

VI. Unhistorical Legal Scholarship and Legal History 40

1. Tabula Rasa 40

2. Ptolemaios Philadelphos 43

3. A Sense of Crisis 44

VII. From Contemporary Roman Law to Roman Law 46

1. Digest Lemon and Lotus Flower 46

2. Beyond Roman Law by Means of Roman Law 48

3. The True Lawyer 49

4. From Scholarly Positivism to Statutory

Positivism 51

Lecture 2: The Transition from Civil Law to Civil Code in

Germany: Dawn of a New Era?

I. The German Civil Code: A Prison Cell for Legal

Scholarship? ' 53

II.

of Private Law: Delict 56

1. The Rights and Interests Protected 57

(a) Introduction 57

(b) The Patrimony As Such 59

(c) Claims Arising under the Law of

Obligations 61

(of Comparative Law

App Cas (HL) Law Reports, Appeal Cases, I louse of Lords art(s). article(s)

B. Baron

B & Ad Barnewall and Adolphus' Reports, King's Bench

B & Aid Barnewall and Alderson's Reports, King's Bench

B & C Barnewall and Cresswell's Reports, King's

Bench

BGB Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch

BGH Bundesgerichtshof

BGIIZ Entscheidungen des Bundesgerichtshofs in

Zivilsachen

Burr Burrow's Reports, King's Bench

BW Burgerlijk Wetboek

C Cape Provincial Division of the South African

Supreme Court

CA Court of Appeal

cap. caput

CB Chief Baron

Cels. Celsus

Ch D Law Reports, Chancery Division

CJ Chief Justice

col(s). column(s)

Cowp Cowper's King's Bench Reports

CP Common Pleas Division

CPD South African Law Reports, Cape Provincial

Division

D. Digesta

DJZ Deutsche Juristenzeitung

Doug Douglas' King's Bench Reports

EDC Eastern District Court Reports, Cape of Good

I lope

El & Bl Ellis & Blackburn's Queen's Bench Reports

El Bl & El Ellis, Blackburn & Ellis' Queen's Bench Reports ER English Reports

ERPL European Review of Private Law

Ex. Exchequer

Gai. Gaius; Gaius' Institutes

Gradi Beiträge zur Erläuterung des deutschen Rechts,

begründet von /. A. Gruchot

II & C Hurlstone & Coltman's Exchequer Reports

I lansOLG Hanseatisches Obertandesgericht

H Bl 11. Blackstone's Common Pleas Reports

HL I louse of Lords

HLC Clark's House of Lords Cases

HRG Handworterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte,

cd. Adalbert Erler and Ekkehard Kaufmann (1971 ff.)

ICLQ International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Inst. Institutiones lustiniani

J Judge

JA Judge of Appeal

JhJb Jherings Jahrbücher für die Dogmatik des

bürgerlichen Rechts

JLH Journal of Legal History

JR Juridical Review

JuS Juristische Schulung

JW Juristische Wochenschrift

JZ Juristenzeitung

KB Law Reports, King's Bench Division

Ld Raym Lord Raymond's King's Bench Reports lib.

Liv. livre

LQR Law Quarterly Review

LR HL Law Reports, I louse of Lords

LR QB Law Reports, Queen's Bench

Macq Macqueen's House of Lords Reports

M & W Meeson and Welsby Exchequer Reports

Menz Menzies' Cape of Good 1 lope Reports

MR Master of the Rolls

n(n). note(s)

NDB Nene Deutsche Biographie

NJW Neue Juristische Wochenschrift

NLR Natal Law Reports

no(s). number(s)

OAG Oberappellationsgericht

OLG Oberlandesgericht

OPD South African Law Reports, Orange Free State

Provincial Division

OR Official Reports, I ligh Court of the South

African Republic; Obligationenrecht (Switzerland) Oxford JLS Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

Paul. Paulus

PECL Principles of European Contract Law

PICC Principles of international Commercial

Contracts

Plowd Plowden's Commentaries or Reports

pr. principium

prALR Allgemeines Landrecht für die preußischen

Staaten

QB Queen's Bench Division; Queen's Bench Reports

RabelsZ Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und

internationales Privatrecht

RG7. Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts in Zivilsachen

RIDA Revue internationale des droits de l'antiquitt

RIDC Reime internationale de droit compart

ROHGE Entscheidungen des Reichsoberhnndelsgerichts

s. section

SA South African Law Reports

SALI South African Law Journal

Salkeld Salkeld's Reports, King's Bench

SAR Reports of the I ligh Court of the South African

Republic

Saund Saunders's King's Bench Reports

SC Session Cases

SC (HL) Session Cases, House of Lords

Sect. Section

SeuffArch Seufferts Archiv für Entscheidungen der obersten

Gerichte in den deutschen Staaten

TI IRHR Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg

tit. title; titidus; titre

TPD South African Law Reports, Transvaal

Provincial Division

TR Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschieden is

tr. translated

TS Reports of the Transvaal Supreme Court

TSAR Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afriknanse Reg

Ulp. Ulpian

Vaugh Vaughan's Common Pleas Reports

vol. volume

Vor Vorbemerkung

W Witwatersrand Local Division of the South

African Supreme Court

WarnRspr. Warneyer, Die Rechtsprechung des Reichsgerichts in

Zivilsachen

W Bl Sir William Blackstone's King's Bench Reports

WLD Reports of the Witwatersrand Local Division

WR Weekly Reports

ZEttP Zeitschrift für europäisches Privatrecht

ZfRV Zeitschrift für Rechtsvergleichung

ZNR Zeitschrift für neuere Rechtsgeschichte

ZSS (GA) Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für

Rechtsgeschichte. Germanistische Abteilung

ZSS (KA) Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanon ist ische Abteilung

ZSS (RA) Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für

Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung