Preface. 1. The Philosophy of Law of Eduard Gans. 1.1. Life and Career. 1.2.

Gans and Hegel. 1.3. The Value of Roman Law. 1.4. The System of Roman Law. 1.

5. Inheritance and Law. 1.6. The System as Polemic. 2: Gans's System of Roman Civil Law in Outline (1827). First Book: On Law in General. Preface.

Introduction. 1st. On Law in Objective Relation. 2nd. On Law in Subjective Relation. 3rd. Realization of Law, or on Legal Procedure. Second Book: On Property Law.

1st. On Physical Things. 2nd. On Possession. 3rd. On Property. 4th. On Usufruct and Servitudes.

5th. On Liens. 6th. On Emphyteusis and Superficies. Third Book: On the Law of Obligations. 1st. On Obligations in General. 2nd.

On Contracts and Similar Obligatory Relationships. 3rd. On Delicts and Related Obligatory Relationships. 4th. On the Movement and Satisfaction of Obligations. Fourth Book: On Family Law. 1st. On Marriage.

2nd. On Paternal Power and Kinship. 3rd. On Guardianship. Fifth Book: On the Law of Succession. 1st. On the Concept of the Roman Law of Succession. 2nd.

On the Relation of Testamentary Succession to Interstate Succession. 3rd. On the Testamentary System, or on Wills, Legacies, Entailed Estates, and Gifts causa mortis. 4th. On Intestate Succession. 5th. The Doctrine of Inheritance. 6th.

On bonorum possessio in Opposition to hereditas. 3: Gans's Preface to Hegel's Philosophy of Law (1833). 4: Glossary. 5: Appendix: Gans's Preface to Hegel's Philosophy of History (1837), translated by J. Sibree (1857). Notes. Bibliography. Index.