Origins of the Pledge in Rome: Roman execution in kind and in equivalent

The Roman origin of the right of pledge ex contractu, resides in the judicial pledge, since this real right appears for the first time in Rome, in the ancient legis actio per pignoris capionem, a judicial procedure latu sensu. Let us see how this conception was gradually arrived at in that legal sys...

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Main Author: Etkin, Alberto Marcos
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 1944
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/REUNC/article/view/11002
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Summary:The Roman origin of the right of pledge ex contractu, resides in the judicial pledge, since this real right appears for the first time in Rome, in the ancient legis actio per pignoris capionem, a judicial procedure latu sensu. Let us see how this conception was gradually arrived at in that legal system. First of all we must establish that every juridical institution lacks an absolute value, that is, a true logical value for all times, since the abstract, rational part of the law is directed and predetermined by the vital, historical part, which gives rise to the formation and style of the institutions of pure juridical logic.