András Földi — Gábor Hamza HISTORY AND INSTITUTES OF ROMAN LAW
András Földi — Gábor Hamza HISTORY AND INSTITUTES OF ROMAN LAW The most important Hungarian textbook of Roman law for hundred years This textbook succeeds the manual of Roman law written by Róbert Brósz and Elemér Pólay, first published in 1974. The new work of András Földi and Gábor Hamza offers a more extensive treatment not only than that of the textbook which it succeeds, but also than the two-volume, 1941 manual of Kálmán Személyi. In its detailed treatment of the subsequent history of Roman law it can only be compared to the classical work of Tamás Vécsey, the last edition of which appeared in 1907. The treatise, as suggested by its title, presents the history and the institutes (i.e. the classical material) of Roman law. The historical part, however, does not deal exclusively with governmental organization and the legal sources of ancient Rome, but also traces in detail the continuous presence of Roman law in different contemporary legal systems. The structure of the textboo...
