CONTRACT OF PARTNERSHIP IN BULGARIAN LAW AND ITS ORIGIN IN ROMAN LAW Cover Image

LA SOCIETÀ IN DIRITTO BULGARO E LA SUA ORIGINE NEL DIRITTO ROMANO
CONTRACT OF PARTNERSHIP IN BULGARIAN LAW AND ITS ORIGIN IN ROMAN LAW

Author(s): Stoyan P. Ivanov
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Civil Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Law and Transitional Justice, Law on Economics, Canon Law / Church Law, Philosophy of Law, EU-Legislation, Sociology of Law, Maritime Law, Commercial Law, Court case, Sharia Law, Comparative Law, Administrative Law, Labour and Social Security Law
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Partnership; societas; Bulgarian law; Roman law; traditio iuris romani; consensual contracts; Law of obligations and contracts

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to examine and to outline the origin of the contract of societas (partnership) in actual Bulgarian law in Roman law and to present it like a typical example of an institute received by the Roman law towards the Western European codifications of the private law from XIX century. The author makes the conclusion that the contract of partnership in Bulgarian legal system according to the Law of obligations and contracts and the constant interpretative practice of Bulgarian Supreme Court of Appeal follows the genuine Roman law tradition being that a bilateral or multilateral contract with the objective to realize profits for the partners (economic goal), which creates only internal relations without any external effect and without the establishment of an independent legal subject – legal personality.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 410-420
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Italian