Introductory

The Roman law of ‘things' or, in contemporary terms, ‘property' covered a much broader field than that encompassed by the modern law of property.

One of the reasons for this fact is that the Roman jurists linked the thing (res) with any legally guaranteed economic interest, any right or rights having monetary value, that a person could hold in respect thereof. Hence, in their discussion of the law relating to things the jurists included the law of succession and a large part of the law of obligations. Modern legal systems, on the other hand, have adopted a different scheme that restricts the law of things to the law relating to things and real rights while the law of obligations and the law of succession are treated as separate parts of private law. Mainly for reasons of convenience, the present work largely follows the modern approach.

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