The Roman Law Tradition

by: Lewis, A.D.E. Ibbetson, D.J.

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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.

An exploration of the various ways in which Roman law has affected, and continues to affect, patterns of legal decision-making throughout the world, this text brings together 12 studies which provide an emphatic endorsement of the continued importance and vitality of the tradition

Contents:
List of contributors ix
Foreword: Peter Stein, Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge, 1968-1993 xi
List of abbreviations xii
1 The Roman law tradition
1
DAVID IBBETSON AND ANDREW LEWIS
2 Labeo and the fraudulent slave
15
ALAN RODGER
3 Doing and causing to be done
32
PETER BIRKS
4 The danger of definition: contrectatio and appropriation
54
DAVID IBBETSON
5 Going to the fair Jacques de Rvigny on possession
73
WILLIAM M. GORDON
6 Bembo giureconsulto?
98
MICHAEL H. CRAWFORD
7 Gentilis and the interpretatio duplex
104
J.L. BARTON
8 Ius gentium in the practice of the Court of Admiralty around 1600
119
ALAIN WIJFFELS
9 Stair's title 'Of Liberty and Servitude'
135
JOHN D. FORD
10 The actio communi dividundo in Roman and Scots law 159
GEOFFREY MACCORMACK
11 Sale and transfer of title in Roman and Scots law 182
DAVID JOHNSTON
12 'What Marcellus says is against you': Roman law and Common law 199
ANDREW LEWIS
13 Audi et alteram partem: a limit to judicial activity 209
DAAN ASSER
Index of sources 224
Index of names and subjects 229

xiii, 234 pages ; 24 cm

The Roman Law Tradition

by: Lewis, A.D.E. Ibbetson, D.J.

• ISBN-13: 9780521033466 / 978-0-521-03346-6
• ISBN-03: 0521033462 / 0-521-03346-2
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006

Price: 52,00 EURO

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