Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
3 - Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
Roman Antiquity, Political Reaction, a Rising Bourgeoisie, and Scientism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
Book contents
- The Making of Modern Property
- The Making of Modern Property
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 What Roman Antiquity Had to Offer
- 2 The Foundations of Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 3 Crafting Romanist-Bourgeois Property
- 4 Reform, Not Revolution
- 5 The Tensions of Absolute Property
- 6 Roman Dominium in the Republics of Latin America
- 7 The Social Critics
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Summary
The chapter charts the emersion of a powerful rhetorical attack on fedual property in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France, a powerful combination of critiques that would become one of the standard tropes of the modern property discourse well beyond the boundaries of Europe. To this fabricated negative archetype, French jurists juxtaposed the modern idea of Roman absolute dominium enshrined in the Napoleonic Code. Neither Roman nor absolute, the new law of property was a collection of prexisting doctrines couched in the lnaguage of a hyerbolic individualism.
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- The Making of Modern PropertyReinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950, pp. 131 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023