An historical introduction to private law / R.C. van Caenegem ; translated by D.E.L. Johnston.
1992
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Title
An historical introduction to private law / R.C. van Caenegem ; translated by D.E.L. Johnston.
Uniform Title
Geschiedkundige inleiding tot het privaatrecht. French. English
Published
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Call Number
Comp 190 C116
ISBN
0521427452 (pbk.)
0521405149 (hard)
0521405149 (hard)
Description
viii, 215 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24009273
Note
Translation of: Introduction historique au droit privé
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-205) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the English-language edition
1
The origins of contemporary private law, 1789-1807
1
The Code civil of 1804: an end and a new beginning
1
The Code civil in Europe
2
Common law and reception
2
The compilation and promulgation of the Code civil of 1804
4
The Code civil: ancient and modern
6
The spirit of the Code civil
7
Courts and procedure
10
The merits of codification
11
Opposition to codification
13
Bibliography
15
2
Antecedents: the early Middle Ages, c. 500-c. 1100
16
The character of the period
16
Roman law
17
The Germanic national laws
18
Feudal law
20
Legislation: general points
20
Legislation: the capitularies
21
Jurisprudence
24
The courts and procedure
25
Evaluation
26
Bibliography
28
3
Europe and Roman-Germanic law, c. 1100-c. 1750
30
Character of the period
30
Before and after 1500: continuity
31
The development of the law: outline
33
Customary law
35
The European ius commune
45
Legislation
85
Case law
95
The courts and procedure
99
Factors
107
Evaluation
108
Bibliography
109
4
Enlightenment, natural law and the modern codes: from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries
115
Characteristics
115
The Enlightenment
115
Natural law
117
The codes of the Enlightenment
122
Factors
125
The courts and procedure
128
English law in the Enlightenment
134
Evaluation of the law of reason
139
The law of reason and the Historical School
142
Bibliography
144
5
The nineteenth century: the interpretation of the Code civil and the struggle for the law
147
France
147
Belgium and the Netherlands
151
Germany
155
Conservative England
159
Innovation in England
162
Bibliography
165
6
Statute, case law and scholarship
170
The question
170
Advantages and disadvantages
170
Legislators, judges and professors: competition
173
Law and the Volksgeist
177
7
Factors
180
Introduction
180
Change in law
181
Ideas and political power
183
Social groups and private law
184
The intellectual and moral climate
187
Final considerations
196
General bibliography
198
Index
206