Foreword; Note on online resources; Table of cases; Table of statutes; List of abbreviations; PART 1: THE HISTORICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF ROMAN LAW; 1. Historical Introduction to Roman Governance and Society; 2. The Legal Process; 3. Development of Roman Law; 4. Reception of Roman Law; PART 2: THE LAW OF PERSONS; 5. Categories of Person; 6. Slavery; 7. Parents and Guardians; 8. Husband and Wife; 9. Liability for Another; PART 3: THE LAW OF THINGS - PROPERTY; 10. Ownership and Possession; 11. Acquisition of Ownership: Derivative Acquisition; 12. Acquisition of Ownership: Original Acquisition; 13. Praedial Servitudes; 14. Usufruct and Related Rights; 15. Rights in Security; PART 4: THE LAW OF THINGS - SUCCESSION; 16. Succession; PART 5: THE LAW OF THINGS - OBLIGATIONS; 17. Introduction to the Law of Obligations and the Law of Contracts; 18. Verbal Contracts; 19. Real Contracts; 20. Consensual Contracts; 21. Other Contractual Arrangements; 22. The Law of Delicts and the Lex Aquilia; 23. Liability for Insulting Behaviour: the Actio Iniuriarum; 24. Other Delicts; 25. Quasi-Contractual Liability; 26. Quasi-Delictual Liability; Appendix 1: Finding and Citing Roman Sources; Appendix 2: Timeline of Major Events from the Foundation of Rome to Justinian I; Index.