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Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043523799
In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."
Author : Dennis P. Kehoe,Thomas McGinn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130436
An engaging look at how ancient Greeks and Romans crafted laws that fit--and, in turn, changed--their worlds
Author : Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044049682206
Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005285981
In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."
Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108044943
This hugely influential book of 1861 remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of jurisprudence.
Author : John Sassoon
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : 1841501239
John Sassoon's study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an individual killed. Some of the surviving law codes are originals, others near-contemporary copies. Together they preserve a partial but vivid picture of life in the early cites. This occupies more than half the book. Comparison of ancient with modern principles occupies the remainder and is bound to be controversial; but it is important as well as fascinating. The first act of writing laws diminished the discretion of the judges and foretold a limit on individual justice. Some political principles such as uniformity of treatment or individual freedom have, when carried to extremes, produced crises in modern legal systems world wide. But it is tempting but wrong to blame the judges or the lawyers for doing what society require of them.
Author : Raymond Westbrook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1235 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402091
A comprehensive survey of the Law of the Ancient Near East by a team of specialist scholars, this volume allows non-specialists access to the world's earliest known legal systems.
Author : Richard Robert Cherry
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044379530
Author : Elisabeth Meier Tetlow
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0826416284
Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men.
Author : J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 052131643X
Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.
Author : Russ VerSteeg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015056266698
Law in the Ancient World examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for a wide perspective of law and the procedural features of these ancient legal systems. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of ancient laws, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both procedure and substance. The book is comprised of four units: I. Early Mesopotamian Law; II. Law in Ancient Egypt; III. Law in Classical Athens; and IV. Roman Law. Each unit has three chapters, and the first chapter in each unit begins with an overview which provides essential historial background. Next, each initial chapter considers the role of law in society, exploring law in the abstract, the theoretical bases of justice. The middle chapters in each unit trace the development of the ancient judicial systems, distinguishing the various types of judges, courts, and procedures that were employed to make justice available to both citizens and foreigners. The third chapter in each unit reconstructs the substantive laws, including sections detailing Personal Status, Property, Family Law, Inheritance & Succession, Torts, Criminal Law, and Contracts & Commercial Law. A variety of sources, such as early law collections, land records, wills, sales documents, court chronicles, works of ancient literature, accounts of ancient trials, and great codes such as Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis illustrate the sophisticated, often subtle, and complex nature of law in the ancient world.
Author : David Phillips
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472035915
A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world
Author : Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015014186624
Author : Alan Watson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820341156
In Ancient Law and Modern Understanding Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature. "Law, though technical," he writes, "is not remote from scholarship on other matters, and law is a central element in society." From Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, Watson examines law's influence. Without a sensitivity to technical legal language, scholars of literature or history miss much: the use of puns in Plautus, Sulla's claim that Julius Caesar was descended from a slave, the relationship between the Synoptic Gospels. Legal history is an essential tool for understanding society, Watson argues, but it must be applied with knowledge of how law moves from one society to the next, legal reliance on authority, juristic concern with apparent trivia, and the impact on legal growth.
Author : Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00000260