Patrimonial Law Course

Lesson 1 • Patrimonial Law in the Legal System

Positions patrimonial law within private law and its interaction with public law constraints. Students map how regulatory frameworks shape patrimonial transactions.

Lesson 2 • Concept of Patrimony

Defines patrimony as a legal universality linking assets and liabilities to a person. Anchors all subsequent analysis in the unity principle of patrimonial law.

Lesson 3 • Legal Personality and Capacity

Examines how legal personality determines patrimonial capacity for natural and juridical persons. Connects capacity rules to the ability to hold, transfer, and encumber assets.

Lesson 4 • Classification of Patrimonial Rights

Distinguishes real rights, personal rights, and intellectual rights within the patrimonial sphere. Provides the taxonomy students use throughout the course.

Lesson 1 • Limits and Restrictions on Ownership

Analyzes statutory, contractual, and neighbor-law restrictions that curtail ownership. Prepares students to advise on permissible use and encumbrance of assets.

Lesson 2 • Nature and Attributes of Ownership

Breaks down ownership into use, enjoyment, and disposition attributes. Establishes ownership as the fullest real right against which lesser rights are measured.

Lesson 3 • Acquisition and Transfer of Ownership

Covers original and derivative modes of acquiring ownership, including occupation, accession, and conveyance. Links transfer rules to patrimonial asset allocation.

Lesson 4 • Co-ownership and Shared Property

Examines undivided co-ownership, its management rules, and partition remedies. Connects shared ownership structures to estate and business asset planning.

Lesson 1 • Acquisitive Prescription Principles

Explains how continuous, uninterrupted, and public possession ripens into ownership over time. Links prescription requirements to evidentiary standards in title litigation.

Lesson 2 • Possessory Protection Remedies

Examines interdicts and possessory actions that protect possession independently of title. Prepares students to advise clients facing dispossession without title disputes.

Lesson 3 • Legal Nature of Possession

Distinguishes possession from ownership and detention, identifying corpus and animus elements. Grounds subsequent prescription and protection analysis in this distinction.

Lesson 4 • Acquisition and Loss of Possession

Covers how possession is acquired, transferred, and extinguished by act or law. Connects possession continuity to prescription period calculations.

Lesson 1 • Usufruct and Personal Servitudes

Covers usufruct, use, and habitation as personal servitudes that split ownership attributes. Connects these rights to estate planning and asset management strategies.

Lesson 2 • Privileges and Preferential Claims

Examines statutory privileges granting certain creditors priority over general creditors. Connects privilege rules to insolvency and asset distribution scenarios.

Lesson 3 • Predial Servitudes

Examines easements and predial servitudes burdening a servient tenement for a dominant tenement. Prepares students to identify, create, and extinguish servitude rights.

Lesson 4 • Emphyteusis and Long-Term Land Rights

Analyzes long-term real rights granting extensive use of another's land in exchange for obligations. Links these instruments to agricultural, commercial, and infrastructure projects.

Lesson 1 • Interpretation and Content of Contracts

Covers interpretive canons, implied terms, and the role of good faith in contract content. Connects interpretation rules to dispute resolution and drafting practice.

Lesson 2 • Effects of Contracts on Third Parties

Examines the relativity principle, stipulations for third parties, and simulation. Equips students to analyze when contracts bind or benefit persons outside the agreement.

Lesson 3 • Validity Defects and Nullity

Analyzes error, fraud, duress, and lesion as grounds for annulment or rescission. Prepares students to identify and plead validity defects in transactional disputes.

Lesson 4 • Termination, Rescission, and Dissolution

Covers dissolution by performance, mutual agreement, breach, and supervening impossibility. Students apply termination rules to calculate patrimonial consequences for each party.

Lesson 1 • Unjust Enrichment Claims

Examines the general enrichment action as a subsidiary remedy correcting patrimonial imbalances. Prepares students to deploy enrichment claims when other remedies are unavailable.

Lesson 2 • Liability for Others and Things

Examines vicarious liability for employees, children, and liability for defective things or animals. Connects these rules to risk allocation in business and family contexts.

Lesson 3 • Quasi-Contracts: Negotiorum Gestio and Solutio Indebiti

Covers management of another's affairs and payment of the undue as sources of obligation. Links quasi-contractual claims to restitution and unjust enrichment remedies.

Lesson 4 • Delictual Liability Framework

Establishes fault, damage, and causation as the three pillars of delictual liability. Provides the analytical structure applied throughout the chapter.

Lesson 1 • Matrimonial Agreements and Modifications

Examines ante-nuptial contracts, post-nuptial modifications, and formal requirements. Equips students to draft enforceable matrimonial agreements and advise on modifications.

Lesson 2 • Matrimonial Regime Fundamentals

Introduces the concept of matrimonial regime, its sources, and its interaction with general patrimonial law. Establishes the framework for comparing regime types.

Lesson 3 • Community of Property Regimes

Analyzes universal and limited community regimes, asset classification, and management rules. Prepares students to advise spouses on asset control and liability exposure.

Lesson 4 • Dissolution and Liquidation of Regimes

Covers dissolution triggers, liquidation procedures, and distribution of assets on divorce or death. Students calculate each spouse's patrimonial entitlement on regime dissolution.

Lesson 1 • Estate Administration and Partition

Examines the administration of the undivided estate and the partition process among co-heirs. Links administration rules to asset preservation and creditor protection.

Lesson 2 • Reserved Portions and Forced Heirship

Analyzes mandatory shares protecting certain heirs from disinheritance. Connects forced heirship rules to estate planning constraints and reduction actions.

Lesson 3 • Acceptance, Renunciation, and Liability

Covers how heirs accept or renounce succession and the patrimonial consequences of each choice. Equips students to advise heirs facing insolvent or encumbered estates.

Lesson 4 • Testate Succession and Will Formalities

Examines will types, formal validity requirements, and capacity to make a will. Prepares students to draft valid wills and challenge defective instruments.