The Responsibility of a Service Provider in Classical Roman Law
Authors
M.M. Pestov
National Research University Higher School of Economics
, Private Law Research Center under the President of the Russian Federation named after S. S. Alekseev (PLRC)
Автор
guilt,
obligation,
object,
responsibility,
worker,
service
Abstract
The article is devoted to the responsibility of a service provider in Classical roman law. The author describes the main social and legal factores led to the changes in a service agreement in comparing with its structure in Preclassical period of roman law. Basing on fragments of classical juridical treatises he clari es tthe responsibility for a breach of the main obligation tied with service providing as well as of the additional one going from caring for a customer’s thing. Exegesis to authentic sources combines with reviewing of traditional interpetations given by modern authors. The curring research showes the intrinsic interconnection between developing of formal legal relationships based on a contract of autonomic parties and rising of responsibility standards of a service provider. The appearing of an independent craftsman is caused by reglamention of the service agreement object. That object is regarded as physical efforts that will applied by a craftsman after certain period of time.
