SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROF. DR. SC. PETAR SIMONETTI TO A CIVIL LAW LEGAL HERITAGE AND HISTORY OF LAW

Abstract

Intencija je autora ovoga rada ukazati na izniman znanstveni doprinos prof. Simonettija u području civilističke pravne povijesti i povijesti prava, kao i na značenje koje njegov bogati opus ima za rimskopravnu i pravnopovijesnu literaturu. Imajući na umu kako cilj ovoga rada nije pružanje sveobuhvatnog pregleda znanstvenog djelovanja prof. Simonettija, već svojevrsni historio- grafski prinos, pozornost autora usmjerena je prije svega na njegov nemjerljivi doprinos u sustavnoj i iscrpnoj analizi prava građenja koje svoje začetke ima u rimskom načelu superficies solo cedit, a kojom je neupitno zadužio civilističku pravnu znanost, ali i romanistiku. Autori iz riznice prof. Simonettija izdvajaju i institut prava (društvenog) vlasništva, čijom se metodološkom sintezom i analizom legitimirao i kao pravni povjesničar prikazujući čitav historijat geneze prava vlasništva i propitujući stavove pravne doktrine.The intention of the authors of this paper is to emphasize the outstanding scientific contribution of Prof. Simonetti in the field of civil law legal history and the history of law, as well as the significance that his rich opus has to Roman law and history of law literature. Having in mind that the aim of this paper is not to provide a comprehensive review of the scientific activities of Prof. Simonetti, but a kind of historiographical contribution, the authors focused their attention primarily on the immeasurable contribution of Prof. Simonetti in a systematic and detailed analysis of the right to build, which has its beginnings in the Roman principle of superficies solo cedit. With his analysis of right to build prof. Simonetti unquestionably indebted civil law jurisprudence as well as roman legal science. Furthermore, from the very rich opus of the Prof. Simonetti the authors specially emphasize the institute of (social) ownership, by whose methodological synthesis and analysis prof. Simonetti is legitimized as a legal historian, displaying in his publications the entire history of the genesis of property rights and questioning the views of legal doctrine