A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations

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Professor Jorge Vinuales is the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge. His research interests encompass domestic, comparative, European and international environmental law and policy. Nunc transeamus ad obligationes. Quarum summa divisio in duas species deducitur: omnis enim obligatio vel ex contractu nascitur vel ex delicto. Four centuries ago, in his commentaries on the civil law, Donellus analysed the nature of obligatio in Roman law. Subsequent scholars by the score have continued his work and continue to do so. It would be impossible in a short piece to engage with all of this literature, so the purpose of the present discussion is simply to outline what is known and to locate it within the Roman world. Professor Kenneth Armstong is Professor of European Law. His research focuses on European Union law and, in particular, the constitutional and institutional dimensions of EU economic and social governance. He has given expert evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee and the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee on the EU dimension of the referendum on Scottish Independence. Henderson met Mr Ibbotson in 2018 and described him as an “enthusiastic flier”. He added: “I believe David Ibbotson was an experienced pilot and I had no reservations about his ability as a pilot.”

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Ibbetson's legal historical scholarship is marked by its breadth, with publications spanning topics as varied as medieval contracts, wrongdoing in Mesopotamian codes, early modern natural law and modern tort. His early career was characterised by work on the development of the English law of obligations, exemplified by his book A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations, which remains a central point of reference for any account of how the modern law of tort and contract have taken their present shapes. Roman Law, a subject Ibbetson taught since his days as a PhD student, developed into a second focal point for his research, with a series of articles on the Roman law of obligations applying the methods of English legal history to the ancient sources. His more recent work has increasingly taken on a multi-jurisdictional approach, and further explored the way in which legal concepts were understood at an intellectual level as well as in the courtrooms. Please note that this event is being moved from LG18 to the McCrum Lecture Theatre in Corpus Christi College (due to industrial action)* Obligations arise either from contract or from wrongdoing or by some special right from various types of causes. Si quis tutelam vel curam vel negotia vel argentariam vel quid aliud, unde obligatio oritur, certo loci administravit: etsi ibi domicilium non habuit, ibi se debebit defendere et, si non defendat neque ibi domicilium habeat, bona possideri patietur.In cross-examination, the following exchange took place between Henderson and prosecutor Mr Goudie. David Henderson is arrested at his home in East Riding of Yorkshire by Dorset Police. He is taken to Hull police station and interviewed but answers "no comment"