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The Roman Law Tradition

Editors:
A. D. E. Lewis, University College London
D. J. Ibbetson, Magdalen College, Oxford

Peter Stein, David Ibbetson, Andrew Lewis, Alan Rodger, Peter Birks, William M. Gordon, Michael H. Crawford, J. L. Barton, Alain Wijffels, John D. Ford, Geoffrey MacCormack, David Johnston, Daan Asser

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Date Published: February 2007
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521033466

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In The Roman Law Tradition an international team of distinguished legal scholars explores the various ways in which Roman law has affected and continues to affect patterns of legal decision-making throughout the world. Roman Law began as the local law of a small Italian city. It grew to dominate the legal relationships of the Mediterranean basin for the first five hundred years of our era. The revival of its study in the medieval universities led to its influencing the subsequent development of the legal system of western Europe and thereafter those parts of the rest of the World colonized from Europe. Roman legal ideas penetrated procedure as well as the substance of law and assisted the process of harmonization and codification of local customary laws. Techniques of legal reasoning which first emerge in Rome continue in daily use. Roman law was also of immense significance in the emergence of modern political thought.
- Important collection on a major theme in legal history by an international team
- The growing importance of European law for UK justice highlights continued relevance of this topic
- Strong ancient history/history of ideas interest
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- Date Published: February 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033466
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 150 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.378kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Foreword Peter Stein
List of abbreviations
1. The Roman law tradition David Ibbetson and Andrew Lewis
2. Labeo and the fraudulent slave Alan Rodger
3. Doing and causing to be done Peter Birks
4. The danger of definition: contrectatio and appropriation David Ibbetson
5. Going to the fair - Jacques de Révigny on possession William M. Gordon
6. Bembo giureconsulto? Michael H. Crawford
7. Gentilis and the interpretatio duplex J. L. Barton
8. Ius gentium in the practice of the Court of Admiralty around 1600 Alain Wijffels
9. Stair's title 'Of Liberty and Servitude' John D. Ford
10. The actio communi dividundo in Roman and Scots law Geoffrey MacCormack
11. Sale and transfer of title in Roman and Scots Law David Johnston
11. 'What Marcellus says is against you': Roman law and Common law Andrew Lewis
12. Audi et alteram partem: a limit to judicial activity Daan Asser
Index of sources
Index of names and subjects.
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Editors
A. D. E. Lewis, University College London
D. J. Ibbetson, Magdalen College, Oxford
Contributors
Peter Stein, David Ibbetson, Andrew Lewis, Alan Rodger, Peter Birks, William M. Gordon, Michael H. Crawford, J. L. Barton, Alain Wijffels, John D. Ford, Geoffrey MacCormack, David Johnston, Daan Asser