Peculium ed il problema della persona giuridica nel Diritto Romano

Abstract

The article deals with the role of peculium in Roman law. Its importance for the commercial practice of the Ancient Rome is underestimated up today. But its study demonstrates that this construction played, in ancient commercial traffic, the same role as the limited liability company plays today. Therefore peculium was a surrogative device of the juridical person, it is the cause why Roman law didn't have need to create a well- developed notion of the juridical person.