Description |
xix, 427 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Roman law 1. Was acceptilatio an informal act in classical Roman law? / Hans Ankum -- 2. Solutio and traditio / J L Barton -- 3. Actor and defendant on negatoria servitutis / L Capogrossi Colognesi -- 4. Some reflections on history and dogma as jurists' tools / Giuliano Crifò -- 5. D.33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) revisited / Robert Feenstra -- 6. Death, taxes and status in Pliny's Panegyricus / Jane F Gardner -- 7. Translation and interpretation / William M Gordan -- 8. The Case of the deliberate wine spill / Herbert Hausmaninger -- 9. De Iurisprudentia / Neil MacCormick -- 10. Pigs, boars and livestock under the Lex Acquilia / Grant McCleod -- 11. Galba negabat / A D Manfredini -- 12. Partes iuris / Theo Mayer-Maly -- 13. Unas testis nullus testis / Anonino Metro -- 14. Unpardonable crimes: fourth century attitudes / Olivia F Robinson -- 15. The Praetor hoist with his own petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 / Alan F Rodger -- 16. Maiestas in the late republic: some observations / Robin Seager -- Other ancient laws 17. Oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law: d'varim haniknim ba'amira and dotis dictio / Ranon Katzoff -- 18. Cause, status and fault in the traditional Chinese law of homicide / Geoffrey MacCormack -- 19. The Septuagint as nomos: how the Torah became a "civic law" for the Jews of Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Mordrzejewski -- 20. Basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy / Reuven Yaron -- 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 -- 22. The Moveable text of McKenzie: bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing / John W Cairns -- 23. Restitution, reception, recompense and unjustified enrichment in Scottish law / Robin Evans-Jones and Phillip Hellwage -- 24. John Adams and the whale / Andrew D E Lewis -- 25. Leibniz's Elementia Iuris Civilis and the private law of his time / Klaus Luig -- 26. Classifying crimes / R A A McCall Smith -- 27. The Shifting focus of adoption / Joseph Webb McKnight -- 28. Girth: society and the law of sanctuary in Scotland -- 29. Descendit ad inferos: and Belial sued Jesus Christ for trespass / Eltjo Schrage -- 30. Saving souls through adoption: legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies / A J B Sirks -- 31. Legal change and Scots private law / Joe Thomson -- 32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a classical maxim of legislation / Andreas Wacke -- 33. Kasper Manz, a German jurist in the seventeenth century: a man of theory and practice / Gunter Wesener -- 34. A Note on regulae juris in Roman law and on Dworkin's distinction between rules and principles / Laurens Winkel |
Summary |
A collection of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. Chapters provide new insight on areas including translation and interpretation, actor and defendant in negatoria servitutis, oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law, basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy, bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing, legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies, and legal change and Scots private law. Of interest to scholars and students of Roman law, ancient Jewish and Chinese law, legal history, and comparative law. Cairns specializes in the history of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh. Robinson specializes in Roman administrative and criminal law at Glasgow University |
Notes |
Includes index of (Roman and some other) texts discussed and index of proper names and topics |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
Subject |
Comparative law.
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Jewish law -- History.
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Law -- Historiography.
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Law -- History.
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Law -- Scotland -- History.
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Law, Ancient.
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Roman law -- History.
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Roman law -- Influence.
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Roman law -- Reception.
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Roman law.
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Author |
Cairns, John.
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Robinson, O. F.
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Watson, Alan, 1933-2018.
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LC no. |
2001268243 |
ISBN |
1841131571 |
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