ABSTRACT
Private law is concerned with individuals as legal subjects, that is, as persons having rights and being liable to duties. In the analysis of private law, therefore, the person is always at the centre, whether qua individual or as part of a social grouping expressive of his personality, such as the family, associations (such as trade unions and political parties), in economic activity (companies and bodies corporate in general). The Constitution has a large number of provisions directed at the protection of persons: civil rights, the right to liberty, the various aspects of the personality are constitutional bedrock and hence fundamental to the legal order in its entirety.
