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TABLE OF CONTENTS
4.3.3 Just price 195
4.3.4 Extension to buyers, movables, and lease 196 4.4 Remedies for latent defects vs the remedy for lesion beyond moiety 200 4.5 Summary and concluding remarks 202
5 Early modern Dutch law on the remedies for defects in a thing exchanged for 210 money
5.1 Introduction 210 5.1.1 Legal practice - sources 211 5.1.2 Procedural law 213
5.2 Early modern Dutch legal doctrine and practice on the law of latent defects 217 5.2.1 The aedilician remedies: redundant rules? 217 5.2.1.1 Scope of the civil and aedilician remedies 217 5.2.1.2 Assessment of price reduction 220 5.2.1.2.1 Legal practice 224 5.2.1.3 Limitation periods 226 5.2.1.3.1 Roman-Frisian legal doctrine on limitation 229 5.2.1.3.2 Roman-Dutch legal practice on limitation 232 5.2.1.4 Favourable characteristics of the aedilician remedies 234 5.2.2 Extension to lease 239 5.2.2.1 Roman-Frisian legal doctrine on extension to lease 242 5.2.2.2 Legal practice 244 5.2.3 Increased liability 245 5.2.3.1 Roman-Frisian legal doctrine on increased liability 247 5.2.4 Liability for encumbrances on immovables 250 5.2.4.1 Roman-Dutch legal practice 256 5.2.4.2 Roman-Frisian legal practice 257 5.3 Lesion beyond moiety (laesio enormis) 260 5.3.1 Presumption of fraud 262 5.3.2 Limitation periods 264 5.3.2.1 Legal practice 265 5.3.3 Assessment of the just price 266 5.3.3.1 Legal practice 266 5.3.4 Extension to buyers, movables and lease 267 5.3.4.1 Legal practice 269 5.4 Remedies for latent defects vs the remedy for lesion beyond moiety 270 5.5 Summary and concluding remarks 272
6 Seventeenth and eighteenth century natural law on the remedies for defects 280 in a thing exchanged for money
6.1 Introduction 280 6.1.1 Natural law: a changing paradigm 281 6.2 Seventeenth and eighteenth century natural law on the law of latent defects 286 6.2.1 The aedilician remedies: redundant rules? 286 6.2.1.1 Scope of the civil and aedilician remdies 286 6.2.1.2 Natural law theory and positive law: a difficult union 289 6.2.1.3 Assessment of price reduction 292 6.2.1.4 Limitation periods 297
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