History of Roman and Portuguese Law

Code:

D101

Acronym:

HDPR

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	History

Instance: 2003/2004 - A

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	180	Official Study Plan - LD	1	-	13	-

Objectives

The core goal of the subject is to provide students with a basic legal culture, essential to the training of a lawyer. It is therefore designed to:
1.Make them aware of the invaluable contribution of Roman Law, with respect both to the development of a legal mentality on the part of students, and for its importance to the origins and characterisation of the Portuguese legal system.
2.Give them the principal framework of the sources and institutions of Portuguese Law, from its earliest forming to the present day, alongside the major lines developed by Portuguese legal thought in the light of streams of foreign thought.

Program

ROMAN LAW

1. Social Norms
2. Legal Norms
3. Roman Law (Ius Romanum)
4. Legal-Technical Language
5. Real Notion of IUS
6. The Corpus Iuris Civilis
7. Periods in Roman Law
8. The Archaic Period
9. The Classical Period
10. The Post-classical Period.
11. The Justinian Period
12. Ius (Law) and Auctoritas (Authority)
13. Magistracies
14. The Praetor
15. The Roman Tradition
16. "Sources" of Ius Romanum
17. Custom.
18. The Law of the Twelve Tables:
19. Lex (law)
20. Senatusconsultum (senatus consult)
21. Senat. Tertullianum
22. Senat. Velleianum
23. Senat. Macedonianum
24. Constitutiones Principum (imperial constitutions)
25. Iurisprudentia
26. The Ius Praetorium
27. The Actio Ficticia
28. The Actio in Factum Concepta
29. The Actio Translativa:
30. The Actio Utilis

HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE LAW
INTRODUCTION:
PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS. PLAN OF EXPLANATION.

1. Notion of the history of law.
2. Purpose of history of law.
3. Classifications of history of law.
4. Chronological method and monographical method in explaining the history of law.
5. Background of Portuguese law. Basic facts.
6. Plan of explanation.
7. Formation and development of the science of the history of Portuguese law.

PART ONE:
ELEMENTS OF HISTORY OF PENINSULAR LAW
Chapter I: Early Period
1. Basic characteristics. Sources of knowledge.
2. Pre-Roman peoples.
3. Political and social organisation.
4. Pre-Roman Peninsular law.

Chapter II: Roman Period
1. Roman conquest of the Peninsula.
2. Romanisation of the Peninsula.
3. Sources of Roman law in relation to the Peninsula.
4. Law in force in the Peninsula at the time of the Germanic invasions. Common Roman law.

Chapter III: German or Visigoth Period
1. Reason for order.
2. The Germans prior to the invasions.
3. The German invasions.
4. Sources of law in the Germanic States. Documents on application of the law.
5. General outlines of political history of the Peninsula since the German invasions to the fall of the Visigoth State.
6. Conditions under which the Visigoths established themselves in the Peninsula.
7. Sources of law in the Visigoth period.
8. Science of law and legal practice in the Visigoth period

Chapter IV: Period of Moorish Occupation and Christian Reconquest
1. Moorish invasion and its significance.
2. The Reconquest. Formation of Christian States.
3. Separation of Portugal. Legal question of ceding land of Portugal to D. Henrique.
4. Constitutive features and elements of the law and the Reconquest.

PART TWO:
ELEMENTS OF THE HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE LAW
Chapter I: Periods in the History of Portuguese Law
1. Overview of the evolution of Portuguese law.

Chapter II: Individualization Period of Portuguese Law
1. Sources of Portuguese law before the second half of the 13th century.
2. Aspects of the legal system of the era.
Chapter III: Portuguese Law – Period of Roman-Canon Inspiration
§1st Epoch of Reception of Reborn Roman Law and Renewed Canon Law (Common Law)
§2nd Epoch of Ordinations

Chapter IV: Period of the Formation of Modern Portuguese Law
§1st Epoch of Rationalist Natural Law
§2nd Epoch of Individualism
§3rd Epoch of Social Law

Main Bibliography

CRUZ, Sebastião - Direito Roman, Coimbra, 1984.
JUSTO, A. Santos - Fases do Desenvolvimento do Direito Roman, Coimbra, 1989.
JUSTO, A. Santos - As Acções do Pretor, ("Actiones Praetoriae"), Coimbra, 1989.
COSTA, Mário Júlio de Almeida – História do Direito Português, 3rd ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2001.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam