Para la historia de la formación de la teoría general del acto o negocio jurídico y del contrato, iv: los orígenes históricos de la noción general de acto o negocio jurídico

Abstract

In the codes of the Germanic area (Prussia, Saxony, Germany), the trichotomy personae, res, actiones on which the Justinian Institutiones are based, is substituted for the trichotomy Personen, Sachen, Handlungen (Rechtsgeschäft), which is inserted at the be­ginning of the system in a general part.   This article explores the ancient, medieval and modern use of actus and negotium, the Latin words for the German words Handlung and Geschäft; the origin of the expressions actus iuridicus and negotium iuridicum; and the substitutions of the actiones of the Institutiones trichotomy for actus (Handlung) and negotium iuridicum (Rechtsgeschäft). Major roles in the development of these dogmas were played by the XVI-century French jurist François Connan and other representatives of the mos Gallicus, and the XVIII-century German ju­rist Daniel Nettlebladt and his followers of the late iusnaturalism and the early pandectistics.