ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES BY AQUILIAN LAWSUIT IN CASE OF DESTRUCTION OF THE OBJECT OF OBLIGATION Cover Image

ПРОЦЕНА ШТЕТЕ ПО АКВИЛИЈАНСКОЈ ТУЖБИ У СЛУЧАЈУ УНИШТЕЊА ПРЕДМЕТА ОБЛИГАЦИОНОГ ОДНОСА
ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES BY AQUILIAN LAWSUIT IN CASE OF DESTRUCTION OF THE OBJECT OF OBLIGATION

Author(s): Samir Aličić
Subject(s): Civil Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: Roman law; Obligations; Indemnity law; Lex Aquilia; Contractual penalty; Alternative obligations; Noxal actions;

Summary/Abstract: Cases in which the circumstance that a destroyed or damaged object was the subject of contractual relationship that influences the assessment of damages by Aquilian lawsuit (actio legis Aquiliae; actio damni iniuriae) in classical Roman encompass the following situations: destruction of object promised under contractual penalty, destruction of object of noxal liability and destruction of less valuable prestation in alternative obligation. The common feature for all the stated cases is that the owner suffers damage that surpasses the value of the destroyed object because instead of the delivery of an irreplaceable object, as he will have to execute a financially more difficult prestation from obligation. The damage is therefore assessed to the value of the more difficult prestation. Due to the implementation of the Aquilia law rule that the damage is assessed according to the highest value that the object had during the year, or thirty days prior to destruction, the damage is assessed to the amount of the more valuable object even if it is ruined too, and if the obligation will thus be terminated.

  • Issue Year: 61/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 281-298
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian
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