Ordinatio ad Casum

Guido Rossi

doi:10.5771/9783465146087

Summary

The book examines the development of legal causation in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, focusing especially on practice-oriented literature (decisiones and consilia). Causality began to be discussed from the late thirteenth century and especially during the first half of the fourteenth when it was described as ordinatio. In private law, ordinatio remained the standard approach to causation during the entire early modern period: centuries of legal practice mainly refined its scope but did not change its core. By contrast, its application in criminal law would increasingly crash with the intentionality requirement, and so it was progressively challenged.

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Publication year: 2023
Publication date: 12.01.2023
ISBN-Print: 978-3-465-04608-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-14608-7
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series: Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte
Volume: 339
Language: English
Pages: 332
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - X
1. What this book is not about No access
2. What this book is about No access
3. Communis opinio and legal precedents: the law of attraction No access
4. A few last caveats No access
1. 1. Setting the scene: culpa levissima and the Accursian Gloss No access
  2. Bartolus and culpa levissima No access
  3. Fault and blameworthiness No access
2. 1. Chronology and causality: a short premise No access
  2. Bartolus’ causation scheme No access
  3. Ordinatio of fault to mishap No access
  4. At the origins of causal ordinatio No access
  5. Causation after Bartolus No access
  6. A different path: culpa levissima and causation in Baldus No access
3. 1. 1. Possibility No access
    2. Probability No access
    3. Necessity No access
  2. The limits of necessity No access
  3. Necessity and sufficiency No access
  4. Praeordinatio and sufficient cause No access
  5. Causation and presumptions of causality No access
  6. Liability beyond causation No access
1. 1. 1. Justifying positive culpa levissima as culpa levis (and marginalising omissions) No access
    2. The ‘equivalence game’ in a consilium: how to neutralise the causal link between culpa and casus No access
    3. The ‘equivalence game’ in courts’ decisions No access
  2. 1. A first couple of objections No access
    2. Culpa levis? No access
    3. Law courts, fire damages and culpa levissima No access
2. 1. Canon law and causality: proximate and remote causes No access
  2. Ordinatio, proximity and immediateness No access
  3. Ordinatio and monocausality No access
1. 1. Two short premises No access
  2. Cynus and the application of ordinatio to ‘criminal law’ No access
  3. Ordinatio and the ‘doctrine of Bartolus’ No access
2. 1. Ordinatio and foreseeability No access
  2. The growth of intentionality No access
  3. Volition and the demise of ordinatio No access
Conclusion No access Pages 285 - 290
Bibliography No access Pages 291 - 324
Index No access Pages 325 - 332