Page 7 - Latent Defect or Excessive Price?Exploring Early Modern Legal Approach to Remedying Defects in Goods Exchanged for Money - Bruijn

Table of contents
Acknowledgements xiv Abbreviations xvii
1 Subject and methodology 3
1.1 Introduction 3 1.1.1 Subject matter of this study 3 1.1.2 Aims of this study 6 1.1.3 Why study the law about defects in things exchanged for money? 7 1.1.4 Current state of research 8
1.2 Methodology 10 1.2.1 Comparative legal history 10 1.2.2 Research topics 11 1.2.3 Selection of sources and literature 15
1.3 Structure 18
2 Medieval ius commune on the remedies for defects in a thing exchanged for 21 money
2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 Medieval ius commune on the law of latent defects 23
2.2.1 The aedilician remedies: redundant rules? 23 2.2.1.1 Scope of the civil and aedilician remedies 23 2.2.1.2 Assessment of price reduction 26 2.2.1.3 Limitation periods 28 2.2.1.4 Favourable characteristics of the aedilician remedies 31
2.2.2 Extension to lease 33 2.2.3 Increased liability 34 2.2.4 Liability for encumbrances on immovables 37
2.3 Lesion beyond moiety (laesio enormis) 44 2.3.1 The remedy for lesion beyond moiety as the preferred remedy for breach 48 of contract
2.3.2 Lesion beyond moiety - outlook 52
2.3.2.1 Presumption of fraud 52 2.3.2.2 Limitation periods 55 2.3.2.3 Assessment of the just price 55 2.3.2.4 Extension to lease and movables 56
2.4 Remedies for latent defects vs the remedy for lesion beyond moiety 58 2.5 Summary and concluding remarks 61
3 Early modern Castilian law on the remedies for defects in the thing 69 exchanged for money
3.1 Introduction 69 3.2 The legal context of early modern Castile 73 3.2.1 Legal sources 73 3.2.1.1 Case law from the Royal Chancery of Valladolid 74 3.2.2 Scholastic foundations of a natural law theory on remedies for defects in 78
the thing sold
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