SEVERAL LANDMARKS REGARDING THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ROMANIAN CIVIL LAW

Civil law is the foundation of the entire private law legislation. Therefore, at present, the autonomy of other special matters, such as family law, commercial law, labour law, private international law and so on is never total, their concepts maintaining a strong connection with the fundamental notions of civil law. In view of this aspect, without the pretence of an exhaustive analysis, this article seeks to show that the whole “greatness” of civil law is justified primarily by its historical foundations. Starting from Roman law, passing through the old Romanian law and culminating in the elaboration of the Romanian Civil Code of 1864 we find a model of reasoning, technique and procedure that forms the nucleus around which the current civil law developed.