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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461497803321

Autore

Oosterhuis Janwillem

Titolo

Specific performance in German, French and Dutch law in the nineteenth century [[electronic resource] ] : remedies in an age of fundamental rights and industrialisation / / by Janwillem Oosterhuis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martins Nijhoff Publishers, 2011

ISBN

90-04-20228-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (652 p.)

Collana

Legal history library ; ; v. 4

Studies in the history of private law ; ; v. 2

Disciplina

346.02/2

Soggetti

Specific performance - Germany - History - 19th century

Specific performance - France - History - 19th century

Specific performance - Netherlands - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [591]-610) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Specific Performance before the Nineteenth Century -- Specific Performance as Primary Remedy -- Damages as Rule -- Specific Performance as an Exceptional Remedy -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Sources -- Index of Cases.

Sommario/riassunto

The current French, German and Dutch Law of Contract each offer a remedy of specific performance to creditors suffering from breach of contract. This book analyses the alterations to this remedy during the nineteenth century on the substantive, procedural and enforcement levels. Fascinatingly, there is a link between changes to the remedy and the development of early human rights and the mass industrialisation of society. The latter had the effect of actually converging the national remedies of specific performance in the examined systems: damages and rescission became more accessible as remedies at the cost of specific performance. The book demonstrates the interdependency between law and society and provides vital background information to the harmonisation of a controversial concept in the European Law of Obligations.    Studies in the History of Private Law , volume 2