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Modena 1182, the origins of a new paradigm of ownership : the interface between historical contingency and the scholarly invention of legal categories

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Date
01/11/2018
Author
Conte, Emanuele
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
740611
Keywords
Medieval property
Dominium utile
Pillius de Medicina
Statutory law
Medieval legal doctrines
D111 Medieval History
K Law
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Abstract
The legal phrase dominium utile is commonly known to express the property rights enjoyed by the person to whom a piece of land has been granted in fief or under other similar concessions. A considerable amount of legal-historical research has been spent on the origins, the reasons and effects of this legal concept, which proved to have played a very significant role in European history. One of the results of this historical research was that the first jurist who introduced the expression dominium utile was Pillius de Medicina, a law professor who moved from Bologna to the new born school of Modena in 1180. This article aims at an historical recontextualization of Pillius’ doctrinal construct in the frame of the political and social history of the city of Modena. However, this contingency of a doctrinal invention does not prevent a legal theory from transcend its particular circumstances to remain part of the tool-box which can be used by intellectuals in a completely different historical context, perhaps very remote from time and place of their first origins.
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Conte , E 2018 , ' Modena 1182, the origins of a new paradigm of ownership : the interface between historical contingency and the scholarly invention of legal categories ' , Glossae: European Journal of Legal History , vol. 15 , pp. 4-18 . < http://www.glossae.eu/glossae-15-2018-2/ >
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Glossae: European Journal of Legal History
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2255-2707
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://www.glossae.eu/glossae-15-2018-2/
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Funding: Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law: Consonance, Divergence and transformation in western Europe from the late 11th to 13th centuries [740611].
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URL
http://www.glossae.eu/glossae-15-2018-2/
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19311

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