TY - BOOK ID - 49831722 TI - The Roman law of obligations : the collected papers of Peter Birks AU - Birks, Peter AU - Descheemaeker, Eric PY - 2014 SN - 0191788546 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Obligations (Roman law) KW - Law - Non-U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Law - Europe, except U.K. KW - Roman law UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:49831722 AB - This volume contains Birks' notes on a series of lectures on the Roman law of obligations delivered in 1982. They give a comprehensive insight into his views on the topic, which are relevant in both a Roman context and also from a modern English perspective. The book examines, in turn, the law of contracts with its general principles and rule applications to the transactions mentioned in the Institutes; the law of delicts; and finally the miscellany of residual obligations from which the later categories of quasi-contracts and quasi-delicts, but also the modern law of unjust enrichment, emerged. ER -