John Cairns / Olivia Robinson (eds.)

Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History

Herausgeber: Cairns, John Jr.; Robinson, Olivia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focused on texts and contexts is dedicated to a great contemporary Romanist, legal historian and comparative lawyer: Professor Watson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9781841131573
• ISBN-10: 1841131571
• Artikelnr.: 21903314

Autorenporträt

John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia Robinson teaches at Glasgow University.

Inhaltsangabe

ROMAN LAW 1. Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? HANS
ANKUM (Amsterdam) 2. Solutio and Traditio J L BARTON (Oxford) 3. Actor and
Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis L CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI (Rome) 4. Some
Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists' Tools GIULIANO CRIFO (Rome) 5.
D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited ROBERT FEENSTRA (Leiden) 6.
Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny's Panegyricus JANE F. GARDNER (Reading) 7.
Translation and Interpretation WILLIAM M. GORDON (Glasgow) 8. The Case of
the Deliberate Wine Spill HERBERT HAUSMANINGER (Vienna) 9. De
Iurisprudentia NEIL MACCORMICK (Edinburgh) 10. Pigs, Boars and Livestock
under the Lex Aquilia GRANT MCLEOD (Edinburgh) 11. "Galba Negabat" A D
MANFREDINI (Ferrara) 12. Partes Iuris THEO MAYER-MALY (Salzburg) 13. "Unus
Testis Nullus Testis" ANTONINO METRO (Messina) 14. Unpardonable Crimes:
Fourth Century Attitudes O F ROBINSON (Glasgow) 15. The Praetor Hoist with
his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 ALAN RODGER (Edinburgh)
16. Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations ROBIN SEAGER
(Liverpool) OTHER ANCIENT LAWS 17. Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish
and Roman Law: D'varim Haniknim Ba'amira and Dotis Dictio RANON KATZOFF
(Bar Ilan) 18. Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of
Homicide GEOFFREY MACCORMACK (Aberdeen) 19. The Septuagint as Nomos: How
the Torah became a "Civic Law" for the Jews of Egypt JOSEPH MÉLE ZE
MODRZEJEWSKI (Paris) 20. Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy REUVEN
YARON(Jerusalem) TRANSPLANTS, RECEPTIONS AND COMPARISONS 21. The Education
and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in Historical Perspective: From Jurists
and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries HANS W BAADE (Austin)
22. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the
Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing JOHN W CAIRNS (Edinburgh) 23.
Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified Enrichment in Scots Law
ROBIN EVANS-JONES (Aberdeen) and PHILLIP HELLWEGE (Cologne) 24. John Adams
and the Whale ANDREW LEWIS (London) 25. Leibniz's Elementa Iuris Civilis
and the Private Law of his Time KLAUS LUIG (Cologne) 26. Classifying Crimes
R A A MCCALL SMITH (Edinburgh) 27. The Shifting Focus of Adoption JOSEPH W
MCKNIGHT (Dallas) 28. Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland
HECTOR L MACQUEEN (Edinburgh) 29. Descendit ad Inferos: And Belial Sued
Jesus Christ for Trespass ELTJO SCHRAGE (Amsterdam) 30. Saving Souls
through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies A J B SIRKS
(Frankfurt a/Main) 31. Legal Change and Scots Private Law JOE THOMSON
(Glasgow) 32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical Maxim
of Legislation ANDREAS WACKE (Cologne) 33. Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in
the Seventeenth Century: A Man of Theory and Practice GUNTER WESENER (Graz)
34. A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on Dworkin's Distinction
between Rules and Principles LAURENS WINKEL (Rotterdam)