The Roman law of things (ius rerum) or, in contemporary terms, ‘property’, covered a muchbroader 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.[319] The law of things is organized under two broad headings: rights which related to property and which were available against persons generally (iura in rem); and rights which related to persons and which were available against specific individuals (iura in personam).
The Romans divided the rights that existed over property into those acquired over individual objects and those acquired over things in a mass. The law of property in a narrow sense pertained to the former category of rights, whilst the law of succession embraced most of the rules regulating the acquisition of things in a mass. Finally, rights concerned with claims against specific persons were dealt with under the law of obligations. Mainly for reasons of convenience, we will deal with the law of succession and obligations separately and approach the law of property on the same basis as it is done in modern law.3.3.1
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Mousourakis G.. Roman Law and the Origins of the Civil Law Tradition. Springer,2015. — 339 p.. 2015
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