Author: Patrick Mac Chombaich De ColquhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
A Summary of the Roman Civil Law
Author: Patrick Mac Chombaich De ColquhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Roman Law and the Origins of the Civil Law Tradition
Author: George MousourakisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319122681
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This unique publication offers a complete history of Roman law, from its early beginnings through to its resurgence in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century. Besides a detailed overview of the sources of Roman law, the book also includes sections on private and criminal law and procedure, with special attention given to those aspects of Roman law that have particular importance to today's lawyer. The last three chapters of the book offer an overview of the history of Roman law from the early Middle Ages to modern times and illustrate the way in which Roman law furnished the basis of contemporary civil law systems. In this part, special attention is given to the factors that warranted the revival and subsequent reception of Roman law as the ‘common law’ of Continental Europe. Combining the perspectives of legal history with those of social and political history, the book can be profitably read by students and scholars, as well as by general readers with an interest in ancient and early European legal history. The civil law tradition is the oldest legal tradition in the world today, embracing many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. Despite the considerable differences in the substantive laws of civil law countries, a fundamental unity exists between them. The most obvious element of unity is the fact that the civil law systems are all derived from the same sources and their legal institutions are classified in accordance with a commonly accepted scheme existing prior to their own development, which they adopted and adapted at some stage in their history. Roman law is both in point of time and range of influence the first catalyst in the evolution of the civil law tradition.
A Summary of the Roman Law
Author: John TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Summary of the Roman Civil Law
Author: Sir Patrick MacChombaich de ColquhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The History of Law in Europe
Author: Bart WautersPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786430762
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
A Summary of the Roman Civil Law
Author: Patrick Mac Chombaich De ColquhounPublisher:
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Category : Comparative law
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
A Summary of the Roman Civil Law
Author: Patrick M. De ColquhounLaw, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition
Author: Clifford AndoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812204883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools—most prominently analogy and fiction—used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought. In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. Despite the prominence accorded public and international law in legal theory, it was civil law that provided conceptual resources to those other fields in the Roman tradition. Ultimately it was the civil law's implication in systems of domination outside its own narrow sphere that opened the door to its own subversion. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. As a result, forms of domination once exercised by Romans over others were inscribed in the workings of law at Rome, henceforth to be exercised by the Romans over themselves.
A Summary of the Roman Civil Law
Author: Patrick Mac Chombaich De ColquhounPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
A Manual of the Roman Civil Law Arranged After the Analysis of Dr. Hallifax
Author: George LeapingwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description