Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Decock, Wim, 1983-

Title Theologians and contract law : the moral transformation of the ius commune (ca. 1500-1650) / by Wim Decock
Published Leiden, NL : M. Nijhoff Publishers, 2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 723 pages)
Series Legal history library volume ; 9
Studies in the history of private law ; 4
Legal history library ; v. 9.
Legal history library. Studies in the history of private law ; v. 4.
Contents Method and direction -- Toward a general law of contract -- Natural limitations on "freedom of contract" -- Formal limitations on "freedom of contract" -- Substantive limitations on "freedom of contract" -- Fairness in exchange
Summary In Theologians and Contract Law, Wim Decock offers an account of the moral roots of modern contract law. He explains why theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries built a systematic contract law around the principles of freedom and fairness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Liberty of contract -- Europe -- History
Liberty of contract -- Moral and ethical aspects
Contracts (Canon law)
Contracts (Roman law)
Contracts -- Europe -- History
Customary law -- History
Contracts
Contracts (Canon law)
Contracts (Roman law)
Customary law
Liberty of contract
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012021902
ISBN 1283854430
9781283854436
9789004232853
9004232850