The so-called life-saving contract in the classical Roman Law
Keywords:
Freedom of contract, Freedom of will, Inominated contracts.Abstract
The freedom of contract, as it is currently defined, was unknown in Roman law. In the Roman law of obligations, it had called numerus clausus: the parties could not perform contracts other than those to an actio was expected. On the other hand, one can see that this limitation of the numerus clausus could be outlined without problems by legal praxis. In contract to save the life of someone, an individual receives something or becomes lender of third parties, when saved him from an act of violence. Moreover, such a contract is a good example of how the Romans dealt with freedom of contract.
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