Institutions of Roman Private Law. Volume I

Institutions of Roman Private Law. Volume I  is a course destined for students in their first year of study at the Law School. Its role is to reveal to them the mystery of Roman law, to make them fall in love with a complex and, at the same time, interesting discipline, to contribute to the formation of legal thinking and to emphasize the actuality of Roman Private Law.

Institutions of Roman Private Law. Volume I  it is a useful tool for those who dedicate themselves to the study of law and who want to familiarize themselves with specialized legal language. Without excluding the academic rigor, necessary for any university exposure, the work presents the importance of studying Roman law, the notions of social and political history, the sources of Roman law, the Roman civil procedure, the status of persons, the legal regime of goods, real rights and successions as a “story”, contributing to the learning of the legal alphabet by future generations of jurists.

Institutions of Roman Private Law. Volume I  draws the attention of critics and contemporaries that Roman legal norms were born under the sign of the god of war, Mars. Not by chance, Roman law was in a permanent struggle to adapt to reality and to offer simple solutions for cases arising in legal life. Therefore, we emphasize that the reader must understand that his studying is not a waste of energy, but THE REVIVAL EXERCISE OF POWER, as the great romanist writer I. C. Cătuneanu said.