Cesare Sanfilippo
Cesare Sanfilippo (born April 6, 1911 in Palermo , † August 27, 2000 in Catania ) was an Italian legal scholar , legal historian and rector of the University of Catania .
Life
Sanfilippo studied law at the University of Palermo , where he learned in particular under Salvatore Riccobono . After graduating and gaining his doctorate in 1931, he accepted a teaching position at Camerino University in 1932 . In 1935 he moved to the University of Catania , but from 1943 during the war he also held a teaching position at the University of Messina . In 1947 Sanfilippo became dean of the law faculty in Catania, and in 1950 he was elected rector. He held this office until 1974. Sanfilippo was a holder of the Grand Cross of the Italian Order of Merit and the Order of St. Agatha and an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne .
Sanfilippo's research focus was on Roman law . There, in turn, he concentrated mainly on the law of obligations and contract law. He was best known for his textbook on the Institutiones Iustiniani .
Works (selection)
- Il metus nei negozi giuridici (1934)
- Studi sull'hereditas (1937)
- Condictio indebiti, i, Il fondamento dell'obbligazione da indebito (1943)
- Evoluzione storica dell'hereditas (1946)
- Servitutes personarum (1960)
- Istituzioni di diritto romano . 10th edition. Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2002 (continued posthumously).
literature
- Obituary by Alessandro Corbino , in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History , Romance Studies Department. 2002, pp. 678-680.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sanfilippo, Cesare |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian jurist, legal historian and Rector of the University of Catania |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palermo |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 2000 |
| Place of death | Catania |