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Author Johnston, David, 1961-

Title The Roman law of trusts / David Johnston
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages)
Summary A history of Roman law and how it affected society, focusing on the legal evolution of the "fideicommissum", a device similar to a "trust" in common law. As part of Roman inheritance law, this affected strategies of succession open to testators and reveals ambitions and legislative concerns
Analysis Roman Empire Trusts Law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-291)
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Subject Trusts and trustees (Roman law) -- History
Fideicommissum (Roman law) -- History
Fideicommissum (Roman law)
Trusts and trustees (Roman law)
Erfrecht.
Fideï-commissen.
Romeins recht.
Fiducie (Droit romain)
Substitution (droit romain)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191681356
0191681350