Common law, civil law, and colonial law : : essays in comparative legal history from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries / / edited by William Eves, John Hudson, Ingrid Ivarsen, Sarah B. White.
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses t...
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| Superior document: | Social Sciences |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social Sciences
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- a'In aliquibus locis est consuetudo' : French lawyers and the Lombard customs of fiefs in the mid-fiefs in the mid-thirteenth century / Attilio Stella
- What does Regiam maiestatem actually say (and what does it mean)? / Alice Taylor
- James VI and I, rex et iudex : one king as judge in two kingdoms / Ian Williams
- George Harris and the comparative legal background of the first English translation of Justinian's Institutes / Łukasz Jan Korporowicz
- The nature of custom : legal science and comparative legal history in Blackstone's commentaries / Andrew J. Cecchinato
- Through a glass darkly : English common law seen through the lens of the Göttingische gelehrte anzeigen (Eighteenth Century) / Carsten Fischer
- Looking afresh at the French roots of continuous easements in English law / Ciara Kennefick
- Case law in Germany : the significance of Seuffert's Archiv / Clara Günzl
- Leone Levi (1821-1888) and the history of comparative commercial law / Annamaria Monti
- Radical title of the crown and aboriginal title : North America 1763, New South Wales 1788, and New Zealand 1840 / David V. Williams
- The High Court of Australia at mid-century : concealed frustrations, private advocacy, and the break with English law / Tanya Josev
- English societal laws as the origins of the comprehensive slave laws of the British West Indies / Justine Collins.