In his ‘Inleidinge tot de Hollantsche Rechtsgeleertheyt’, Hugo Grotius introduced the concept of wrong-by-construction-of-law (‘misdaed door wetsduidinge’), the idea that civil law could assign liability to someone who had not committed any fault, i.e. merely because of his or her ‘capacity’ or ‘quality’ as a parent, as an owner of an animal, as an inhabitant of a building, or as an employer or shipowner. This contribution situates Grotius’s views on qualitative liability within the wider Netherlandish learned juridical context of his time, and especially studies the role of fault (‘culpa’) and presumptions of fault in the learned theories on qualitative liability. Apart from printed treatises and volumes of consilia, this contribution also takes into account hitherto unstudied handwritten lecture notes of the late medieval and early modern university of Leuven.

在他的“Inleidinge tot de Holllantsche Rechtsgeleertheyt”中，Hugo Grotius 引入了法律错误的概念（“misdaed door wetsduidinge”），即民法可以将责任分配给没有犯任何过错的人，即仅仅因为他或她作为父母、作为动物的所有者、作为建筑物的居民、或者作为雇主或船东的“能力”或“品质”。这一贡献将格劳秀斯关于定性责任的观点置于他那个时代更广泛的荷兰学术法律背景中，并特别研究了过失（“过错”）的作用和定性责任的学术理论中的过错推定。除了印刷的论文和 consilia 的卷，