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Comments On The Historiography Of Condominium: The Myth Of Roman Origin, Robert G. Natelson

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This article seeks to dispel the common perception that the condominium is an institution peculiarly Roman. The article attempts to set the record straight and to trace a course of events that is symptomatic of underlying problems in American legal scholarship.

Part II outlines the considerations which render it improbable that anything like modern condominium existed in Roman civil law. Part III is a short sketch of the actual history of condominium. Part IV traces the process by which the fable of Roman origin crept throughout American legal literature. Part V explains, in reverse chronological order, how a now-discredited European …