P. Van Wetter – Les Obligations en Droit Romain. 2 Volumes. Ghent–Paris, 1883. In French.

P. Van Wetter – Les Obligations en Droit Romain. 2 Volumes. Ghent–Paris, 1883. In French.

A classic treatise by the distinguished Belgian Roman law scholar Polynice Alfred Henri Van Wetter, one of the leading Roman law authorities of the late nineteenth century. Published in Ghent and Paris, this two-volume work provides an extensive and scholarly examination of the law of obligations under classical Roman law.

Drawing directly upon the Corpus Juris Civilis and other primary Roman legal sources, Van Wetter analyzes the origins, classification, effects and extinction of obligations, while examining contracts, quasi-contracts, delicts, quasi-delicts, sale, lease, mandate, deposit, pledge, suretyship, assignment of claims, novation and the Lex Aquilia. Throughout the work, he compares Roman legal principles with nineteenth-century continental civil law, making it an important contribution to both Roman law and comparative legal studies.

Because of its scholarly depth and historical importance, the work remains highly valued by universities, legal historians, specialized libraries and collectors of rare legal literature.