Roman Law

Author : Rafael Domingo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351111454

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Roman Law by Rafael Domingo Pdf

Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian’s massive Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive secular legal system of Antiquity, which remains at the heart of the civil law tradition of Europe, Latin America, and some countries of Asia and Africa. Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules, and mechanisms that most Western legal systems still apply. The study of Roman law thus facilitates understanding among people of different cultures by inspiring a kind of legal common sense and breadth of knowledge. Based on over twenty-five years’ experience teaching Roman law, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of the subject, as well as a historical introduction which contextualizes the Roman legal system for students who have no familiarity with Latin or knowledge of Roman history. More than a compilation of legal facts, the book captures the defining characteristics and principal achievements of Roman legal culture through a millennium of development.

Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521687119

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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby Pdf

Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

Author : William Livesey Burdick
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil law
ISBN : 9781584772538

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The Principles of Roman Law and Their Relation to Modern Law by William Livesey Burdick Pdf

Burdick, William L. The Principles of Roman Law and Their Relation to Modern Law. Rochester: The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., [1938]. xxi, 748 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 20020254946. ISBN 1-58477-253-0. Cloth. $110. * General survey of the principles of Roman law as they have developed over time with respect to their place in civil law, English common law and the American and Canadian legal systems. Contents include "The World Wide Extension of Roman Law," "The Civil Law in the United States and Canada," "Outlines of Roman Law History," "The Corpus Juris Civilis," "The Law of Persons including Marriage, Husband and Wife, Divorce, Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward," "The Law of Property," "The Law of Obligations," "The Law of Succession," "The Law of Actions" and "The Law of Public Wrongs." A solid introduction to the subject of Roman law and its application in personal and family law in subsequent legal systems.

Author : Alan Watson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820312613

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Roman Law & Comparative Law by Alan Watson Pdf

Provides a comprehensive description of the system of Roman law, discussing slavery, property, contracts, delicts and succession. Also examines the ways in which Roman law influenced later legal systems such as the structure of European legal systems, tort law in the French civil code, differences between contract law in France and Germany, parameters of judicial reasoning, feudal law, and the interests of governments in making and communicating law.

Author : Thomas McGinn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472118434

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Obligations in Roman Law by Thomas McGinn Pdf

Explores a fundamental building block of Roman life

Author : Peter Stein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521643791

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Roman Law in European History by Peter Stein Pdf

How Roman law has influenced European legal and political thought from antiquity to the present day.

Author : David Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139425803

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Roman Law in Context by David Johnston Pdf

Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. The book discusses three main areas of Roman law and life: the family and inheritance; property and the use of land; commercial transactions and the management of businesses. It also deals with the question of litigation and how readily the Roman citizen could assert his or her legal rights in practice. In addition it provides an introduction to using the main sources of Roman law. The book ends with an epilogue discussing the role of Roman law in medieval and modern Europe, a bibliographical essay, and a glossary of legal terms. The book involves the minimum of legal technicality and is intended to be accessible to students and teachers of Roman history as well as interested general readers.

Author : George Mousourakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319122687

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Roman Law and the Origins of the Civil Law Tradition by George Mousourakis Pdf

This unique publication offers a complete history of Roman law, from its early beginnings through to its resurgence in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century. Besides a detailed overview of the sources of Roman law, the book also includes sections on private and criminal law and procedure, with special attention given to those aspects of Roman law that have particular importance to today's lawyer. The last three chapters of the book offer an overview of the history of Roman law from the early Middle Ages to modern times and illustrate the way in which Roman law furnished the basis of contemporary civil law systems. In this part, special attention is given to the factors that warranted the revival and subsequent reception of Roman law as the ‘common law’ of Continental Europe. Combining the perspectives of legal history with those of social and political history, the book can be profitably read by students and scholars, as well as by general readers with an interest in ancient and early European legal history. The civil law tradition is the oldest legal tradition in the world today, embracing many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. Despite the considerable differences in the substantive laws of civil law countries, a fundamental unity exists between them. The most obvious element of unity is the fact that the civil law systems are all derived from the same sources and their legal institutions are classified in accordance with a commonly accepted scheme existing prior to their own development, which they adopted and adapted at some stage in their history. Roman law is both in point of time and range of influence the first catalyst in the evolution of the civil law tradition.

Author : Bart Wauters,Marco de Benito
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786430762

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The History of Law in Europe by Bart Wauters,Marco de Benito Pdf

Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Author : Alan Watson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780820330617

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The Spirit of Roman Law by Alan Watson Pdf

This book is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, says Alan Watson, but about the values and approaches, explicit and implicit, of those who made the law. The scope of Watson's concerns encompasses the period from the Twelve Tables, around 451 B.C., to the end of the so-called classical period, around A.D. 235. As he discusses the issues and problems that faced the Roman legal intelligentsia, Watson also holds up Roman law as a clear, although admittedly extreme, example of law's enormous impact on society in light of society's limited input into law. Roman private law has been the most admired and imitated system of private law in the world, but it evolved, Watson argues, as a hobby of gentlemen, albeit a hobby that carried social status. The jurists, the private individuals most responsible for legal development, were first and foremost politicians and (in the Empire) bureaucrats; their engagement with the law was primarily to win the esteem of their peers. The exclusively patrician College of Pontiffs was given a monopoly on interpretation of private law in the mid fifth century B.C. Though the College would lose its exclusivity and monopoly, interpretation of law remained one mark of a Roman gentleman. But only interpretation of the law, not conceptualization or systematization or reform, gave prestige, says Watson. Further, the jurists limited themselves to particular modes of reasoning: no arguments to a ruling could be based on morality, justice, economic welfare, or what was approved elsewhere. No praetor (one of the elected officials who controlled the courts) is famous for introducing reforms, Watson points out, and, in contrast with a nonjurist like Cicero, no jurist theorized about the nature of law. A strong characteristic of Roman law is its relative autonomy, and isolation from the rest of life. Paradoxically, this very autonomy was a key factor in the Reception of Roman Law--the assimilation of the learned Roman law as taught at the universities into the law of the individual territories of Western Europe.

Author : George Mousourakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351888400

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The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law by George Mousourakis Pdf

Roman law forms an important part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. This book traces the historical development of Roman law from the earliest period of Roman history up to and including Justinian's codification in the sixth century AD. It examines the nature of the sources of law, forms of legal procedure, the mechanisms by which legal judgments were put into effect, the development of legal science and the role of the jurists in shaping the law. The final chapter of the book outlines the history of Roman law during the Middle Ages and discusses the way in which Roman law furnished the basis of the civil law systems of continental Europe. The book combines the perspectives of legal history with those of social, political and economic history. Special attention is given to the political development of the Roman society and to the historical events and socio-economic factors that influenced the growth and progress of the law. Designed to provide a general introduction to the history of Roman law, this book will appeal to law students whose course of studies includes Roman law, legal history and comparative law. It will also prove of value to students and scholars interested in ancient history and classics.

Author : O. F. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134877768

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The Sources of Roman Law by O. F. Robinson Pdf

The notion and understanding of law penetrated society in Ancient Rome to a degree unparalleled in modern times. The poet Juvenal, for instance, described the virtuous man as a good soldier, faithful guardian, incorruptible judge and honest witness. This book is concerned with four central questions: Who made the law? Where did a Roman go to discover what the law was? How has the law survived to be known to us today? And what procedures were there for putting the law into effect? In The Sources of Roman Law, the origins of law and their relative weight are described in the light of developing Roman history. This is a topic that appeals to a wide range of readers: the law student will find illumination for the study of the substantive law; the student of history will be guided into an appreciation of what Roman law means as well as its value for the understanding and interpretation of Roman history. Both will find invaluable the description of how the sources have survived to inform our legal system and pose their problems for us.

Author : William Warwick Buckland,Arnold Duncan McNair Baron McNair
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Common law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Roman Law and Common Law by William Warwick Buckland,Arnold Duncan McNair Baron McNair Pdf

Author : Justinian
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780141961361

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The Digest of Roman Law by Justinian Pdf

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.

Author : Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci,Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191090974

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Roman Law and Economics by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci,Dennis P. Kehoe Pdf

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated. Volume I explores these legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Roman Republic to the management of business in the Empire, while Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other.