The recovery of the Digest -- The civil law glossators -- The commentators -- Roman law and canon law -- Roman law and English law -- The French humanists -- The German "modern use" of the Digest -- The Dutch Elegant Jurisprudence -- The school of natural law -- The age of codification -- The German historical school -- The school of pandectists and the German Civil Code -- The jurisprudence of interests -- Roman law in the United States -- Roman law in the twentieth century -- Roman law and global law -- Further reading -- PART II: Roman law in action -- 7. Civil litigation -- The formulary procedure -- Preliminary proceedings -- Litigants before the praetor -- Representation in litigation -- The formula of the action -- Classifications of actions -- Praetorian remedies -- Execution of the judgment -- Arbitration -- Further reading -- 8. Family law -- Persona, caput, and status -- Paternal power (patria potestas) -- Guardianship (tutela) -- Curatorship (cura or curatio) -- Women and guardianship over women -- Slaves -- Manumission -- Patrons and freedmen -- Unlimited liability of the paterfamilias -- Noxal liability -- Marriage -- Dowry -- Divorce and remarriage -- Concubinage -- Augustan legislation on marriage -- Constantine's legislation on family and marriage -- Justinian's legislation on marriage -- Further reading -- 9. Property law -- The law of things (res) -- Classification of things -- Ownership -- Co-ownership (communio) -- Possession -- Interdictal protection of possession -- Acquisition of ownership -- Mancipatio and in iure cessio -- Occupatio, accession, specification -- Acquisition of fruits -- Donation -- Usucaption -- Interdictum quem fundum and actio ad exhibendum -- Predial servitudes or land easements -- Emphyteusis and superficies -- Further reading -- 10. The law of succession -- Universal succession and hereditas