Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
2 - The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
Robert Joseph Pothier and the Transition from Medieval “Divided Dominium” to Modern Absolute Dominium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The second chapter focuses on a key and highly contested figure of European legal modernity: Robert Joseph Pothier. A visionary whose legal creativity was wholly projected into the future for some, and a lucid and pragmatic seventeenth-century mind for others, Pothier, working with preexisting materials facilitated the conceptual leap from medieval divided dominium to modern property as unitary and robust dominium.
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- The Making of Modern PropertyReinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950, pp. 98 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023