ORIGINAL ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY IN ROMAN LAW

Abstract

The property is one of the most important concepts and institute of civil law, which, thanks to the teachings of lawyers and advocates of the understanding of natural rights, has raised its property to such a prominent place in the hierarchy of legal concepts. However, the property has existed for centuries and even in Roman law we find it in a form that even today, as far as the changed form exists. The importance of property, and therefore the way it can be acquired, represents the elementary knowledge of every lawyer. Still Roman lawmakers noticed that there are differences between individual ways of acquiring property, so that modern legal science would subsequently perfect those basic concepts and shape them later. With this work, the author will try to make closer and show all original ways in which property can be acquired under Roman law and try to compare it comparatively with the solutions that are accepted today in our positive law. Knowing that our legal system has its roots in Roman law and that many legal institutions and solutions are reciprocated from it, the importance of property and the way of acquiring it gets even more important.