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TABLE OF CONTENTS
3.2.2.1 The formulation of general rules 80 3.2.2.2 Fairness in exchange 82 3.2.2.3 A just price 85 3.2.2.4 Deviation from the just price as breach of fairness in exchange 87 3.2.2.5 Fairness in exchange and the sale of a defective thing 91
3.3 Castilian legal doctrine and practice on the law of latent defects 94 3.3.1 The aedilician remedies: redundant rules? 94 3.3.1.1 Scope of the civil and aedilician remedies 94
3.3.1.1.1 Legal practice 97 3.3.1.2 Assessment of price reduction 98
3.3.1.2.1 Legal practice 100 3.3.1.3 Limitation periods 101 3.3.1.3.1 Legal practice 104 3.3.1.4 Favourable characteristics of the aedilician remedies 105 3.3.1.4.1 Legal practice 106 3.3.2 Extension to lease 106 3.3.2.1 Legal practice 107 3.3.3 Increased liability 107 3.3.3.1 Legal practice 112 3.3.4 Liability for encumbrances on immovables 113 3.3.4.1 Legal practice 117 3.4 Lesion beyond moiety (laesio enormis) 121 3.4.1 Presumption of fraud 121 3.4.1.1 Legal practice 125 3.4.2 Limitation periods 126 3.4.2.1 Legal practice 128 3.4.3 Assessment of the just price 129 3.4.3.1 Legal practice 130 3.4.4 Extension to buyers, movables, and lease 132 3.4.4.1 Legal practice 134 3.5 Remedies for latent defects vs the remedy for lesion beyond moiety 135 3.6 Summary and concluding remarks 140
4 Legal humanism on the remedies for defects in a thing exchanged for money 150
4.1 Introduction 150 4.2 Humanist legal doctrine on the law of latent defects 152 4.2.1 The aedilician remedies: redundant rules? 152 4.2.1.1 Scope of the civil and aedilician remedies 152 4.2.1.2 Assessment of price reduction 157 4.2.1.2.1 Excurs: a case before the Reichskammergericht 162 4.2.1.3 Limitation periods 165 4.2.1.4 Favourable characteristics of the aedilician remedies 171 4.2.2 Extension to lease 172 4.2.3 Increased liability 178 4.2.4 Liability for encumbrances on immovables 185 4.3 Lesion beyond moiety (laesio enormis) 190 4.3.1 Presumption of fraud 191 4.3.2 Limitation periods 193
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