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Between Mutuum and Depositum: Deposit of Money under Ius Commune

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2022

Abstract

This paper presents opinions of three medieval and early modern civil lawyers on the deposit of fungibles. In order to do that regular and irregular deposit and loan for consumption in Roman law are outlined first.

Then the opinions contained in Glossa ordinaria and those of Paulus Castrensis and Philippus Decius are discussed. The first of these considered deposit of fungibles to be a deposit contract, the second one did so only under some circumstances and the last one was against this idea and considered it the loan for consumption.

Finally, a short conclusion is given