Naslov
Universal foundations of local laws - example of "just price" (iustum pretium)

Autori
Petrak, Marko ; Žiha, Nikol ; Jusztinger, János

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Law-Regions-Development

Urednik/ci
Tímea Drinóczi ; Župan, Mirela

Izdavač
Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Pečuhu ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku

Grad
Pečuh : Osijek

Godina
2013

Raspon stranica
307-338

ISBN
978-953-6072-76-7

Ključne riječi
iustum pretium, Roman law, reception, Tripartitum, Statute of Ilok, Civil law

Sažetak
The paper endeavours to analyse the influence of traditional universal legal systems (in particular Roman and Canon law) on the development of Hungarian and Croatian local legal systems on example of institute of “just price” (iustum pretium). The first part of the paper is dedicated to the examination of the institute of laesio enormis: firstly, it tries to answer the question, wether the regulations of Roman law were successful in harmonising the freedom of contract and the criterion of equality in exchange. Secondly, if the Roman law could reconcile the demands of the rule of law, and the requirements of a stable commercial life with the principle of elimination of inequality and the principle of equality, both aiming the protection of the economically rather defenceless, weaker party ¬and if so, to what extent. The different elaborations of iustum pretium in medieval Roman legal tradition and medieval Canon law are briefly analysed thereafter. Based on this analysis, the central part of the paper focuses on the potential influence of the medieval elaborations of a just price on contemporary Hungarian and Croatian legal sources, in particular Tripartitum (1514) and the Statute of Ilok (1525). Therefore, all the relevant aspects of the legal meaning of the term iustum pretium and other equivalent or similar expressions (condignum pretium, iusta aestimatio, condigna aestimatio) of those two legal sources are examined. In the final part of the research, the influence of Roman-canonical principle of equality in exchange as a manifestation of commutative justice (iustitia commutativa) on contemporary Hungarian and Croatian law of obligations is investigated. The examined principle as a present form of an ancient idea of "just price" (iustum pretium) is also analysed on a particular example of the institute of gross disparity (laesio enormis).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo

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