The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock's thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the Roman legal tradition (ius commune) by insisting on the moral foundations of contract law. Theologians emphasized that the enforceability of contracts is based on voluntary consent and that a contract should not enrich one party at another's expense. While their main concern was the salvation of...
The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim D...
Die Untersuchungen zur fruhneuzeitlichen Scholastik erleben gerade eine Hochkonjunktur. Juristen, Philosophen, Theologen und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler nahern sich je nach eigener Perspektive den Texten der "Spanischen Spatscholastiker" oder "katholischen Naturrechtler" an. Neuanfanger wie auch Experten erhalten in diesem Band neben Hilfsmitteln zur eigenstandigen Quellenforschung auch einen facherubergreifenden Einblick in den Forschungsstand.
Die Untersuchungen zur fruhneuzeitlichen Scholastik erleben gerade eine Hochkonjunktur. Juristen, Philosophen, Theologen und Wirtschaftswissenschaf...
