Metus in the Roman law of obligations

Title: Metus in the Roman law of obligations
Creator: Glover, Graham B
Date: 2004
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6336
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012401
Description: [From the introduction]: An entire title of book four of Justinian’s Digest is devoted to explaining the doctrine of metus as it was understood at the time of the codification of the Roman law. That title begins with the following statement: "The praetor says: 'I will not hold valid what has been done under duress.'" This unequivocal statement of legal principle illustrates, in very general terms, that by the time the Corpus Iuris Civilis was compiled, the Romans disapproved of persons using threats to inspire the creation of legal obligations, and that it was possible to avoid the legal consequences of an obligation because it was induced by metus. The Corpus Iuris Civilis remains our most valuable source of authority with regard to how duress cases were treated in Roman times. But the relevant textual sources pose some fundamental difficulties. Far from containing a coherent, structured analysis of the law, the relevant passages in fact amount to a jigsaw-puzzle of uncoordinated, haphazard, and occasionally contradictory legal propositions
Format: 28 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Glover, G.B. (2004) Metus in the Roman law of obligations. Fundamina : A Journal of Legal History, 10 . pp. 31-58. ISSN 1021-545X

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