Del Derecho Romano De Guillermo Floris Margadant __link__: La Segunda Vida

Emiliano pinched himself. “I… I am a scholar. Who are you?”

The ghost sneered. “The First Life? You academics and your neat categories. I died in a barbarian raid. I watched my codex burn. I thought law died with me. But then… I woke up.” Emiliano pinched himself

El artículo 1796 del Código Civil mexicano (similar a casi todos en Iberoamérica) define el contrato como "el acuerdo de voluntades para producir o transferir obligaciones y derechos". Esto no es más que una paráfrasis del principio romano consensus ad idem y la definición de obligación de Paulo: Obligationum substantia non in verbo, sed in consensu consistit (La esencia de las obligaciones no está en las palabras, sino en el consentimiento). “The First Life

When the student in Bologna turned the page of the Corpus Juris Civilis , he thought he was looking at a fossil. But Floris Margadant, writing in his office in Mexico City centuries later, knew the truth. I watched my codex burn