Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History
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Table of Contents:
ROMAN LAW 1. Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? HANS ANKUM (Amsterdam) 2. Solutio and Traditio J L BARTON (Oxford) 3. Actor and Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis L CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI (Rome) 4. Some Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists' Tools GIULIANO CRIFO (Rome) 5. D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited ROBERT FEENSTRA (Leiden) 6. Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny's Panegyricus JANE F. GARDNER (Reading) 7. Translation and Interpretation WILLIAM M. GORDON (Glasgow) 8. The Case of the Deliberate Wine Spill HERBERT HAUSMANINGER (Vienna) 9. De Iurisprudentia NEIL MACCORMICK (Edinburgh) 10. Pigs, Boars and Livestock under the Lex Aquilia GRANT MCLEOD (Edinburgh) 11. “Galba Negabat” A D MANFREDINI (Ferrara) 12. Partes Iuris THEO MAYER-MALY (Salzburg) 13. “Unus Testis Nullus Testis” ANTONINO METRO (Messina) 14. Unpardonable Crimes: Fourth Century Attitudes O F ROBINSON (Glasgow) 15. The Praetor Hoist with his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 ALAN RODGER (Edinburgh) 16. Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations ROBIN SEAGER (Liverpool) OTHER ANCIENT LAWS 17. Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: D'varim Haniknim Ba'amira and Dotis Dictio RANON KATZOFF (Bar Ilan) 18. Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of Homicide GEOFFREY MACCORMACK (Aberdeen) 19. The Septuagint as Nomos: How the Torah became a “Civic Law” for the Jews of Egypt JOSEPH MÉLE ZE MODRZEJEWSKI (Paris) 20. Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy REUVEN YARON(Jerusalem) TRANSPLANTS, RECEPTIONS AND COMPARISONS 21. The Education and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in Historical Perspective: From Jurists and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries HANS W BAADE (Austin) 22. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing JOHN W CAIRNS (Edinburgh) 23. Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified Enrichment in Scots Law ROBIN EVANS-JONES (Aberdeen) and PHILLIP HELLWEGE (Cologne) 24. John Adams and the Whale ANDREW LEWIS (London) 25. Leibniz's Elementa Iuris Civilis and the Private Law of his Time KLAUS LUIG (Cologne) 26. Classifying Crimes R A A MCCALL SMITH (Edinburgh) 27. The Shifting Focus of Adoption JOSEPH W MCKNIGHT (Dallas) 28. Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland HECTOR L MACQUEEN (Edinburgh) 29. Descendit ad Inferos: And Belial Sued Jesus Christ for Trespass ELTJO SCHRAGE (Amsterdam) 30. Saving Souls through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies A J B SIRKS (Frankfurt a/Main) 31. Legal Change and Scots Private Law JOE THOMSON (Glasgow) 32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical Maxim of Legislation ANDREAS WACKE (Cologne) 33. Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in the Seventeenth Century: A Man of Theory and Practice GUNTER WESENER (Graz) 34. A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on Dworkin's Distinction between Rules and Principles LAURENS WINKEL (Rotterdam)

About the Author :
John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia Robinson teaches at Glasgow University.

Review :
Les lecteurs jurists seront sans doute captivs par cette tude de la problmatique des institutions anciennes dans le contexte de leur influence et de leurs rapports avec le droit actuel. The challenge for the cataloger is providing access to the many fine essays in an eclectic work.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847310255
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Hart Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Essays in Honour of Alan Watson
  • ISBN-10: 1847310257
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jan 2001
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 424


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