Critical studies in ancient law, comparative law and legal history : essays in honour of Alan Watson /: essays in honour of Alan Watson. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John W. Cairns and Olivia F. Robinson.
• Other Names: Watson, Alan, 1933-2018; Cairns, John W; Robinson, O. F
• Contents: Roman law -- CH1. Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? -- C2. Solutio and Traditio -- CH3. Actor and Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis -- CH4. Some Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists' Tools -- CH5. D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited -- CH6. Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny's Panegyricus -- CH7. Translation and Interpretation -- CH8. The Case of the Deliberate Wine Spill -- CH9. De Iurisprudentia -- CH10. Pigs, Boars and Livestock under the Lex Aquilia -- C11. "Galba Negabat" -- C12. Partes Iuris -- CH13. "Unus Testis Nullus Testis" -- CH14. Unpardonable Crimes: Fourth Century Attitudes -- CH15. The Praetor Hoist with his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 -- CH16. Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations -- Other ancient laws -- CH17. Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: D'varim Haniknim Ba'amira and Dotis Dictio -- CH18. Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of Homicide -- CH19. The Septuagint as Nomos: How the Torah became a "Civic Law" for the Jews of Egypt -- CH20. Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy -- Transplants, receptions and comparisons -- CH21. The Education and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in Historical Perspective: From Jurists and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries -- CH22. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing -- CH23. Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified Enrichment in Scots Law -- CH24. John Adams and the Whale -- CH25. Leibniz's Elementa Iuris Civilis and the Private Law of his Time -- CH26. Classifying Crimes -- CH27. The Shifting Focus of Adoption -- CH28. Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland -- CH29. Descendit ad Inferos: And Belial Sued Jesus Christ for Trespass -- CH30. Saving Souls through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies -- CH31. Legal Change and Scots Private Law -- CH32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical Maxim of Legislation -- CH33. Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in the Seventeenth Century: A Man of Theory and Practice -- CH34. A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on Dworkin's Distinction between Rules and Principles -- Index of (Roman and some other) texts discussed -- Index of proper names and topics.
• Publisher Details: Oxford [England] Portland, Ore : Hart Pub
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 427 pages)
• Subjects: 340.5/3; Law, Ancient; Roman law; Comparative law; Law -- History; LAW -- Customary; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative; Comparative law; Law; Law, Ancient; Roman law; Rechtsgeschiedenis (wetenschap); Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1847310257; 9781847310255; 1847310257; 1280807709; 9781280807701
• Related ISBNs: 1841131571; 9781841131573
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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