Savigny
historical figure · 2 works · 37 mentions · 50 anchored passages
Friedrich Carl von Savigny · System · the great German jurist
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Modern jurist cited by the editor on the effect of ignorance on the computation of legal terms.
Savigny, § 189.
Savigny, System, § 394.
The date of Mora must not be identified with that of the Nativity of an action (actio nata), an important date, as we shall see, in the doctrine of Limitation or Prescription of which it is the starting-point, a starting-point that may be antecedent to Mora Mora generally cannot precede an interpellation or demand of payment:
Ancient Law
German jurist, founder of the historical school of Roman law.
First, in Roman law Savigny, then still living, was the person of greatest authority;
and the researches of Savigny have shown that in Western Europe the old Mancipatory Testament, with all its apparatus of conveyance, copper, and scales, continued to be the form in use far down in the Middle Ages.
Few educated persons are so little versed in legal literature as not to have heard that the language of the Roman jurisconsults on the subject of Possession long occasioned the greatest possible perplexity, and that the genius of Savigny is supposed to have chiefly proved itself by the solution which he discovered for the enigma.