University of Vienna Law Review (Jan 2023)

Ago and aio or "how to make law with words"

  • Anna Novitskaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25365/vlr-2022-6-1-56
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1

Abstract

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Action, azione, agency, legal act, claim, subjective right - what connects all these terms used in different legal cultures of the civil law legal tradition? – They all go back to the concepts actio and agere of Roman law.