Critical studies in ancient law, comparative law and legal history / edited by John W. Cairns and Olivia F. Robinson.
2001
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Title
Critical studies in ancient law, comparative law and legal history / edited by John W. Cairns and Olivia F. Robinson.
Published
Oxford, England ; Portland, Oregon : Hart, 2001.
Call Number
KL147 .C75 2001
Former Call Number
A 300 C869 2001
ISBN
1841131571
Description
xix, 427 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)48163340
Note
"Essays in honour of Alan Watson"--spine.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Roman Law
1Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? / Hans Ankum
3
2Solutio and Traditio / J. L. Barton
15
3Actor and Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis / L. Capogrossi Colognesi
31
4Some Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists' Tools / Giuliano Crifo
37
5D.33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited / Robert Feenstra
45
6Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny's Panegyricus / Jane F. Gardner
51
7Translation and Interpretation / William M. Gordon
61
8The Case of the Deliberate Wine Spill / Herbert Hausmaninger
73
9De Iurisprudentia / Neil MacCormick
79
10Pigs, Boars and Livestock under the Lex Aquilia / Grant McLeod
83
11"Galba Negabat" / A. D. Manfredini
93
12Partes Iuris / Theo Mayer-Maly
103
13"Unus Testis Nullus Testis" / Antonino Metro
109
14Unpardonable Crimes: Fourth Century Attitudes / O. F. Robinson
117
15The Praetor Hoist with his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 / Alan Rodger
127
16Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations / Robin Seager
143
Other Ancient Laws
17Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: D'varim Haniknim Ba'amira and Dotis Dictio / Ranon Katzoff
157
18Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of Homicide / Geoffrey MacCormack
173
19The Septuagint as Nomos: How the Totah became a "Civic Law" for the Jews of Egypt / Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski
183
20Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy / Reuven Yaron
201
Transplants, Receptions and Comparisons
21The Education and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in Historical Perspective: From Jurists and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries / Hans W. Baade
213
22The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing / John W. Cairns
235
23Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified Enrichment in Scots Law / Robin Evans-Jones Phillip Hellwege
249
24John Adams and the Whale / Andrew Lewis
261
25Leibniz's Elementa Iuris Civilis and the Private Law of his Time / Klaus Luig
267
26Classifying Crimes / R. A. A. McCall Smith
283
27The Shifting Focus of Adoption / Joseph W. McKnight
297
28Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland / Hector L. MacQueen
333
29Descendit and Inferos: And Belial Sued Jesus Christ for Trespass / Eltjo Schrage
353
30Saving Souls through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies / A. J. B. Sirks
365
31Legal Change and Scots Private Law / Joe Thomson
379
32Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical Maxim of Legislation / Andreas Wacke
393
33Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in the Seventeenth Century: A Man of Theory and Practice / Gunter Wesener
399
34A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on Dworkin's Distinction between Rules and Principles / Laurens Winkel
413
Index of (Roman and some other) texts discussed
419
Index of proper names and topics
421