Systems of law: Roman law Books
Pennsylvania State University Press Everyday Magicians
Book SynopsisExamines legal documents and magic texts relevant to common forms of magic practiced in Tudor England. Trade Review“The provision of these original sources is a gift to historians and their students but also to modern magicians seeking working materials, and the authors’ analyses provide genuinely new insights into the nature of late medieval and early modern English magical practice.”—Ronald Hutton,author of The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
£17.95
University of Pennsylvania Press The Digest of Justinian Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe most famous and influential collection of legal materials in world history, now available in a four-volume English-language paperback edition.Trade Review"Definitive." * The Retainer *"A landmark." * Religious Studies Review *"Superb." * Texas Bar Journal *
£56.10
LUP - University of Georgia Press Roman Law and Comparative Law
Book SynopsisA comparative and historical examination of the way legal rules and structures relate to society. The book includes a revised and enlarged version of the author's ""The Law of the Ancient Romans"" with a discussion of the role of comparative law in uncovering the causes of legal development.
£33.64
Oxford University Press The Republic and The Laws
Book SynopsisCicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government, based on Greek political theory, and written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic. Its sequel, The Laws, expounds the influential doctrine of Natural Law, setting out an ideal code for a reformed Roman Republic that is half in the realm of Utopia. This is the first complete English translation of both works since 1928.Trade ReviewIn his translation G. achieves a consistent vitality both in narrative... and in argument. * Michael Coffey, The Classical Review Vol.XLIX No.2 *
£7.99
Penguin Books Ltd The Digest of Roman Law
Book SynopsisCodified 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.Table of ContentsTranslated by C.F. KolbertGeneral IntroductionThe Legal BackgroundThe Roman Law of DelictsConcerning the Lex AquiliaConcerning TheftConcerning Robbery with Violence and Riotous AssemblyConcerning Insulting Behaviour and Scandalous LibelsNotesFurther Reading
£12.34
Oxford University Press Inc Roman Inequality
Book SynopsisRoman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents. Edward E. Cohen focuses on two anomalies to which only minimal academic attention has been previously directed: (1) the paradox of a Roman economy dependent on enslaved entrepreneurs who functioned, and often achieved considerable personal affluence, within a legal system that supposedly deprived unfree persons of all legal capacity and human rights; (2) the incongruity of the importance and accomplishments of Roman businesswomen, both free and slave, successfully operating under legal rules that in many aspects discriminated against women, but in commercial matters were in principle gender-blind and in practice generated egalitarian juridical conditions that often trumped gender-discriminatory customs. This book also examines the casuistry through which Roman jurists created legal fictions facilitating a commercial reality utterly incompatible with the fundamental precepts--inherently discriminatory against women and slaves---that Roman legal experts (jurisprudents) continued explicitly to insist upon. Moreover, slaves'' acquisition of wealth was actually aided by a surprising preferential orientation of the legal system: Roman law--to modern Western eyes counter-intuitively--in reality privileged servile enterprise, to the detriment of free enterprise.Beyond its anticipated audience of economic historians and students and scholars of classical antiquity, especially of Roman history and law, Roman Inequality will appeal to all persons working on or interested in gender and liberation issues.Trade ReviewThis book is phenomenal, and delightfully well-documented * as I would expect. I'm deeply sympathetic with what the book seeks to do. This is true of its attempt to grant real historical salience to a feature of Roman law on agency that many probably knew at the level of doctrine but whose implications for the economy few had considered.Clifford Ando, Professor of Roman Law and Classics at the University of Chicago *A must-read for any social and economic and legal historian of antiquity. Both the general overview of the subject matter and the points of detail are innovative and important. * Marco Maiuro, Professor of Roman History at the University of Rome ("La Sapienza") *Engaging with one of the most intriguing aspects of the way the Romans dealt with entrepreneurial matters, this book is a very illuminating piece of scholarship, proof that people with actual business experience can contribute decisively to the field of economic history. * Gilles Bransbourg, American Numismatic Society *It is important to point out that, while this review may well present supporters of Classics for All with a new and, frankly, astonishing aspect of the ancient world, the importance of this book for academics, which cannot be overestimated, lies in the expertise with which C. selects from, and the crystal clarity with which he analyses, the mountains of evidence that the jurists and inscriptions have left on the topic. It all adds up to a fascinating and extremely important contribution to our understanding of the nature of slavery in the Roman world. * Peter Jones, Classics for All *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Inequality Chapter 2 Fiction: Reconciling Economic Reality and Juridicial Principles Chapter 3 Opportunity: From Freedom to Slavery-From Slavery to Freedom Chapter 4 Businesswomen: In Servitude and in Freedom Chapter 5 Servile Imperialism: In Power, In Servitude Works Cited General Index Index of Passages Cited
£54.00
Oxford University Press An Introduction to Roman Law
Book SynopsisThis book sketches the history of Roman Private Law from the Twelve Tables to modern times, and sets out the elements of the system. It does not attempt to summarize the whole law, but explains and evaluates its most characteristic and influential features.This edition contains additional material provided by Ernest Metzger, including an introductory foreward, a revised bibliography, and a glossary of Latin terms.Table of ContentsFOREWORD; PREFACE; HISTORY AND SOURCES OF THE LAW; LAW OF PERSONS; LAW OF PROPERTY; LAW OF OBLIGATIONS; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY; INDEX
£40.84
Oxford University Press The Renaissance of Roman Colonization
Book SynopsisThe colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, their analysis of the Roman colonial model formed the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does it mean to exercise power at and over distance? This book foregrounds the pioneering contribution to this debate of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84). His comprehensive legal interpretation of Roman society and Roman colonization, which for more than two centuries remained the leading account of Roman history, has been of immense (but long disregarded) significance for the modern understanding of Roman colonial practices and of the legal organization and implications of empire. Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of Sigonio''s reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. It shows how his legal interpretation of Roman colonization originated and how it informed the development of legal colonial discourse, from imperial reform and colonial independence in the nascent United States of America to Enlightenment accounts of property distribution. Through a detailed analysis of scholarly and political visions of Roman colonization from the Renaissance to today, this book shows the enduring relevance of legal interpretations of the Roman colonial model for modern experiences of empire.Trade ReviewSeven collected essays, including the Introduction and Epilogue, examine the impact on Romanist scholarship of Carlo Sigonio (1522/23-1584), a Renaissance thinker whose legal interpretation of the "settler-colony" in Roman experience and practice influenced thinkers contemporary to and following him - Machiavelli, Bodin, Anglo-American writers and political actors from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, among others. The case is convincingly made that intra-Empire relations can be as useful as inter-Empire or Empire-outsider relations for appreciating how the antecedents of the contemporary State system operated. * William E. Butler, Jus Gentium *Table of Contents1: Jeremia Pelgrom and Arthur Weststeijn: Introduction: Settler Colonies Between Roman Colonial Utopia and Modern Colonial Practice 2: William Stenhouse: Roman Colonies and the Distribution of Land before Sigonio 3: John Rich: The Mommsen of the Renaissance: Sigonio, the De antiquo iure populi Romani, and Roman Republican Colonization 4: Mark Somos: Sigonio in Anglo-American Projects to Reform the Imperial Constitution, 1751-1777 5: Mattia Balbo: Roman Colonization and Land Division between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Beaufort and Niebuhr 6: Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi: Roman Colonization in Twentieth-Century Historiography 7: Christopher Smith: Epilogue: Reflections on the Past and Future of the Roman Colonial Discourse
£105.00
Oxford University Press The Constitution of the Roman Republic
Book SynopsisThere is no other published book in English studying the constitution of the Roman Republic as a whole. Yet the Greek historian Polybius believed that the constitution was a fundamental cause of the exponential growth of Rome''s empire. He regarded the Republic as unusual in two respects: first, because it functioned so well despite being a mix of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy; secondly, because the constitution was the product of natural evolution rather than the ideals of a lawgiver. Even if historians now seek more widely for the causes of Rome''s rise to power, the importance and influence of her political institutions remains. The reasons for Rome''s power are both complex, on account of the mix of elements, and flexible, inasmuch as they were not founded on written statutes but on unwritten traditions reinterpreted by successive generations. Knowledge of Rome''s political institutions is essential both for ancient historians and for those who study the contribution of Rome toTrade ReviewThis study remains as important to students of ancient history as to classicists. * Contemporary Review *Table of ContentsI. Introduction ; II. A Roman Political Year ; III. Polybius and the Constitution ; IV. The Story of the Origin of the Constitution ; V. The Assemblies ; VI. The Senate ; VII. The Higher Magistrates and the Pro-Magistrates ; VIII. Tribunes, Aediles, and Minor Magistrates ; IX. Criminal Justice ; X. The Influence of Society and Religion ; XI. The Balance of the Constitution ; XII. The Mixed Constitution and Republican Ideology ; XIII. The Republic Remembered
£59.40
University of Notre Dame Press Behind the Scenes at Galileos Trial
Book SynopsisGalileo''s trial in 1633 before the Roman Inquisition is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in the history of science. Galileo''s encounter with the Catholic Church was not only a major turning point in the history of western culture; it is the paradigm case of the clash between the institutional authority of religion and the authority of scientific reason, a clash that has helped to define the modern era. Blackwell''s new contribution to the Galileo affair concerns the official theological position against Galileo. The centerpiece of his project is the treatise entitled Tractatus syllepticus, written by Melchior Inchofer, S.J., whose judgment of the orthodoxy of Galileo''s Dialogue had been requested earlier by the Holy Office and was then incorporated into the proceedings of the trial. At the time, Inchofer''s judgment against Galileo''s book was both detailed and harsh. That judgment formed the basis for Inchofer''s subsequent Tractatus, the fTrade Review“Though the conduct of Galileo's trial was probably less sinister than Blackwell has suggested, with these two defenses of the Church's condemnation of Copernicanism we have a new, intriguing glimpse behind the scenes.” —The Renaissance Quarterly"Blackwell exposes details of the infamous trial that are not universally known: Galileo's explanation in the first session that he did not know there was a warning against writing the book that brought him to the Inquisition, his premature admission of guilt in the second session, and the misreporting of court proceedings to the cardinal in terms that would resonate with them. . . . Recommended." —Choice“Richard Blackwell’s latest foray into scholarship on the Galileo affair contains detective history, careful scholarship, theological ruminations, and excellent translation work. The most tantalizing piece is chapter 1, titled ‘The Legal Case at Galileo’s Trial: Impasse and Perfidy,’ which pushes a thesis that involves plea bargains, mysterious saboteur(s), and a miscarriage of justice.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal“If the evidence does not support a plot in Galileo’s sense, Blackwell’s account provides a scenario for a spellbinding novel. The story leaves enough latitude for the reader to draw his own conclusions. Although scholars both acquit and condemn the Church, the underlying issue remains: what constitutes a demonstration?” — The Review of Metaphysics“There are many reasons why this 'Galileo affair' is uniquely important in modern history. One is that it is instructive for understanding the interaction between science and religion. Blackwell adds some nuances to the conflictualist thesis. . . . The main theme of Blackwell's book is that of exploring 'behind the scenes at Galileo's trial.'. . . This trial is one of the best-documented episodes emblematic of modernity . . . this book makes a valuable contribution and provides a model for this type of inquiry.” —Journal of Modern History“It was faith against reason, entrenched religious orthodoxy against radically new scientific fact. Richard J. Blackwell (St. Louis, emeritus) is an expert on philosophy but here he diligently presents the complex religious and scientific details of the matter within the historical context of Galileo’s time.” — Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance
£19.79
The University of Michigan Press The Laws of the Roman People
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis intellectually powerful and highly original book examines Roman expansion through the lens of public lawmaking, the process of negotiation and debate by which citizen assemblies resolved conflict and expressed consensus. Williamson incisively examines how problems of expansion were managed, and boldly argues that in the end it was expansion itself—both of the electorate and its leadership—that overwhelmed the problem-solving capacities of public lawmaking and led to the breakdown of the Republic." —American Historical Association"[The Laws of the Roman People] is stimulating and significant. It is tackling hugely important and difficult questions." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review"In this extraordinary book, Williamson takes on a daunting and demanding subject—the character and consequences of Roman expansion in Italy over a period of 300 years, the incorporation of Italic peoples into the Roman system, and the resultant tensions and pressures that culminated in the fall of the Republic. No brief review can begin to do justice to the richness and complexity of this work." —Journal of Interdisciplinary History". . . important and learned . . .well-argued and provocative . . ." —Choice"Anyone with an interest in ancient Rome, regardless of their level of interest in law and government, will find Williamson's work relevant and thorough." —CJ-Online
£84.95
Cambridge University Press A Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law
Book SynopsisJolowicz's classic work traces the development of Roman Law historically from the earliest times until the age of Justinian. Private Law is treated at some length for the republican period, but for imperial times the emphasis is on constitutional law and the sources of law, together with the procedure and structure of the judicial system.Table of ContentsPreface; Dates; Abbreviations; 1. Periods in the history of Rome and in the history of her law; 2. The republican constitution; 3. Italy and the provinces during the republic; 4. Social conditions and the different classes of the population during the republic; 5. Sources of law in the republic; 6. Law for foreigners, ius gentium and ius naturale; 7. The XII Tables; 8. The law of the family and of succession at the time of the XII Tables; 9. Slavery and manumission at the time of the XII Tables; 10. The law of property at the time of the XII Tables; 11. The law of obligations at the time of the XII Tables; 12. The law of procedure at the time of the XII Tables; 13. Private law from the XII Tables to the fall of the republic: procedure; 14. Private law from the XII Tables to the fall of the republic: the law of the family and of succession; 15. Private law from the XII Tables to the fall of the republic: the law of slavery and manumission; 16. Private law from the XII Tables to the fall of the republic: the law of property; 17. Private law from the XII Tables to the fall of the republic: the law of obligations; 18. Criminal law in the republic; 19. The constitution under the principate; 20. Classes of the population and the government of the cities under the principate; 21. Sources of law in the principate; 22. Legal science during the principate; 23. Jurisdiction and procedure in the principate; 24. General character of the classical law; 25. The constitution under the Dominate; 26. Procedure and jurisdiction in the Dominate; 27. Sources from the end of the classical period to the accession of Justinian; 28. The character of the law from the end of the classical period to the accession of Justinian; 29. The legislation of Justinian; 30. General character of Justinian's law; Index.
£61.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Justinians Institutes
Book SynopsisThe high point of the reign of the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century AD was the compilation of Roman law in four works, the "Institutes", "Digest", "Code" and "Novels" known as the Corpus iuris civilis. This volume consists of a useful Introduction, Paul Krueger's Latin text, and a modern English translation by Birks and McLeod.
£31.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Companion to Justinians Institutes
Book SynopsisProfessor Ernest Metzger is the Douglas Chair in Civil Law at the University of Glasgow
£27.99
Edinburgh University Press The Creation of the Ius Commune
Book SynopsisThis book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Themes and Context (Cairns and Du Plessis); 1. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Legal Technicalities (Bezemer); 2. The Citation and the Ius Commune (Helmholz); 3. Medieval Family Law (Waelkens); 4. Legal Reasoning in Contract and Delict (Gordley); 5. The Buyer's Remedy for Latent Defects (Hallebeek); 6. Commercial Law (Ernst); 7. The Law of Unjustified Enrichment (Schrage/Dondorp); 8. The Law of Succession (Ryan); 9. The Roman Law of Property and the Reality of the Middle Ages (Rufner); 10. Fault-lines between contract and property in the medieval law of pledge (Du Plessis); 11. Malicious litigation and the rise of the legal profession (Brundage).
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Enlightenment Legal Education and Critique
Book SynopsisEnlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique deals with broad themes in Legal History, such as the development of Scots Law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law and miscellaneous essays on the literary and philosophical traditions within law.
£94.50
University of Pennsylvania Press The Digest of Justinian Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe most famous and influential collection of legal materials in world history, now available in a four-volume English-language paperback edition.Trade Review"Definitive." * The Retainer *"A landmark." * Religious Studies Review *"Superb." * Texas Bar Journal *
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Violence in Roman Egypt
Book SynopsisDrawing on over a hundred papyrus petitions, one of the only sources of personal narrative from the Roman world, Ari Z. Bryen investigates how people living in Roman Egypt negotiated their relationships to local communities and the Empire through legal stories.Trade Review"An extremely important study that will fundamentally change how we think about violence in Egypt and elsewhere in the Roman Empire-in fact, the way we conceive Roman rule in the provinces altogether." * Noel Lenski, University of Colorado *"A substantial contribution to the field of papyrology, Violence in Roman Egypt contributes an interesting analysis of the only extant documentation of this kind in antiquity, which has never before been studied from this perspective." * Sofia Torallas Tovar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life PART I. THE TEXTURE OF THE PROBLEM Chapter 1. Ptolemaios Complains Chapter 2. Violent Egypt Chapter 3. Violence, Modern and Ancient PART II. FROM THE LANGUAGE OF PAIN TO THE LANGUAGE OF LAW Chapter 4. Narrating Injury Chapter 5. The Work of Law Chapter 6. Fission and Fusion Conclusion: Nomos and Its Narratives Appendix A: The Papyrus on the Page Appendix B: Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence List of Papyri in Checklist Order Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£59.50
Cambridge University Press The High Tide of Empire
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Developments in imperialism; 2. Imperialism on three continents; 3. How the provinces were governed; 4. The personality of the emperor: Cult and activity; 5. The impact of her provinces on Rome.
£15.99
Edinburgh University Press Roman Law Essentials
Book SynopsisThis study and revision guide provides a clear account of the structure of Roman government and society: its sources and development of Roman Law, the three keystones of Roman Law The Law of Persons, The Law of Things and the Law of Actions and the reception of Roman Law into medieval Canon Law and the Ius Commune.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Roman Law for Scots Law Students
Book SynopsisFrom property law to delict and unjustified enrichment, this textbook focuses on the areas of Roman law that most influenced Scots law. Students will enter practice with a greater depth of understanding of the roots of modern Scots law, helping them to feel confident in using Roman materials when tackling today's legal problems.
£39.60
University of Toronto Press Picturing Punishment
Book SynopsisBringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Structures of Power: Constructing and Publicizing the New Amsterdam Town Hall Peace and Prosperity Civic vs. Religious Dominance Spectacle, Prestige, and Publicity Public Access and Republican Virtues 2. Procession and Execution Rituals: Moving through the New Amsterdam Town Hall The Iconography of Justice Rituals of Justice behind Closed Doors Public Ceremonies on Execution Day 3. Disposal and Display: The Criminal Corpse on the Gallows Moving Executed Bodies Spectacular Displays Identity Formation at the Gallows Undignified Decomposition and the Taboo of Touch 4. Subversion and Symbolic Transformation: Recreation, Ambush, and Humour at the Gallows Ambushed Landscapes Sexual Innuendo, Leisure, and Acts of Resistance at the Gallows Grotesque Bodies 5. Serving the Public Good: Reform, Prestige, and the Productive Criminal Body in Amsterdam Deriving Civic Good Social Status and the Transformation of Anatomical Practice Dr. Tulp’s Fame and the Criminal’s Reform 6. The Transformation of Touch: Flayed Skin and the Visual and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Leiden Anatomy Theatre A Curious Attraction Moralizing Values Paaw’s Vesalian Methods Interacting with Objects 7. The Symbolism of Skin: Illustrating the Flayed Body Mythological Precedence Properties of Paper and Parchment Tactile Uncovering Conclusion Notes Bibliography
£49.50
University of Toronto Press Justice in Lyon
Book SynopsisJustice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.Trade Review“[Justice in Lyon] is a judicious, clearly written, and well-researched study which will now become the standard work on the subject.” -- Julian Jackson, Queen Mary University of London * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Klaus Barbie: Nazi “Idealist” 2. The Historical Judicial Backdrop: From Nuremberg to the 1980 Cologne Trial of Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen, and Ernst Heinrichson 3. The Investigation: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and the Long Road to Compromise 4. The Barbie Trial Begins: Opening Rituals and the Departure of the Accused 5. The Witnesses 6. The Civil Parties and Prosecution Make Their Case 7. Barbie’s Defence Takes Centre Stage Conclusion
£52.70
University of Toronto Press Justice in Lyon
Book SynopsisThe trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France’s first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the Butcher of Lyon during the Nazi occupation of that city from 1942 to 1944, Barbie tortured, deported, and murdered thousands of Jews and Resistance fighters. Following a lengthy investigation and the overcoming of numerous legal and other obstacles, the trial began in 1987 and attracted global attention. Justice in Lyon is the first comprehensive history of the Barbie trial, including the investigation leading up to it, the legal background to the case, and the hurdles the prosecution had to clear in order to bring Barbie to justice. Richard J. Golsan examines the strategies used by the defence, the prosecution, and the lawyers who represented Barbie’s many victims at the trial. The book draws from press coverage, articles, and books about Barbie and the trial published at the time, as well as recently released archival sourcTrade Review“[Justice in Lyon] is a judicious, clearly written, and well-researched study which will now become the standard work on the subject.” -- Julian Jackson, Queen Mary University of London * H-France Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Klaus Barbie: Nazi “Idealist” 2. The Historical Judicial Backdrop: From Nuremberg to the 1980 Cologne Trial of Kurt Lischka, Herbert Hagen, and Ernst Heinrichson 3. The Investigation: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and the Long Road to Compromise 4. The Barbie Trial Begins: Opening Rituals and the Departure of the Accused 5. The Witnesses 6. The Civil Parties and Prosecution Make Their Case 7. Barbie’s Defence Takes Centre Stage Conclusion
£23.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Studying Roman Law
Book SynopsisStudying Roman Law is an introductory guide aimed at sixth-formers, students and those with a general interest wishing to obtain a basic overview of Roman private law during the first three centuries of the Common Era. It is not meant to be a replacement for more comprehensive and technical manuals on Roman law, but should rather be seen as introductory reading. Written in non-specialist language, it contains a basic overview of the sources of Roman private law and a guide to their use together with a survey of the main areas of the law using primary sources in translation. It also explains the different contexts in which these rules arose and operated as well as the mechanisms by which they were enforced against the backdrop of one of the most sophisticated and influential legal systems of the ancient world.Table of ContentsSources and Methodology Persons Actions Things Conclusions Suggestions for further reading and study Index
£22.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC CHARACTER & INFLUENCE OF THE ROMAN LAW
Book SynopsisGoethe is said to have likened the Roman civil law to a duck: sometimes it is visible, swimming prominently on the surface of the water, at other times it is hidden, diving amid the depths. but it is always there. This may be said to be true not only in continental Europe and Scotland, where Roman law has been a dominant influence, but also in England and the U.S.A., where Roman law has often informed and supplemented Common law. None of the great writers on Common law, with the exception perhaps of Coke, failed to take Roman law in to consideration, especially on the matters of legal theory. Indeed the differences between the two systems can easily be exaggerated. Ne one is better qualified to write on these matters than Peter Stein; this collection of his articles covers both the nature and the tradition of Roman law and ranges from classical to modern times. The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law includes discussions of the ethos and principles of Roman law and of their transmission and transformation in medieval and modern times. Attention is drawn to the working of Roman law in San Marinom which retains the uncodified ius commune.Civil lawyers in England whose work is examined include Vacarius, Thomas Smith and Thomas Legge. Roman law in Scotland is looked at in depth, with special consideration for the natural law tradtition there. A piece on the origin of the four stage theory of social development, which grew out of that tradition and was adopted by Adam Smith, appears for the first time. Finally Professor Stein shows the attraction of Roman law to lawyers in the U.S.A. when they were trying to establish their own legal system following Independence.
£190.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Theodosian Code: Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisThe Theodosian Code, put together under the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II, is a compliation of the laws dating from 312 to 438 AD, when the code was published. It brought order to a vast unmanageable body of law and formed part of the basis for the sixth-century Institutes of Justinian, fundamental to later jurisprudence. This book is an important collection of articles, well established as an essential resource for students of Roman law, long unavailable and here published in paperback for the first time with a new preface and updated bibliography. Contributors: Simon Corcoran; Brian Croke; Judith Evans Grubbs; Jill Harries; Tony Honore; David Hunt; John Matthews; Boudewijn Sirks; Mark Vessey; Dafydd Walters; Ian Wood.Trade Review... uses various methodological approaches (history, law, stylistic analysis, textual criticism) by specialists from different backgrounds (classics, English, history and law) ... [the] best recent collection of articles in English on the Theodosian code ... a fundamental addition to any college library as well as of interest to anyone concerned with Roman law or late antique history. -- R.M. Frakes, Classical WorldTable of ContentsList of Contributors Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: The Background to the Code, Jill Harries Part I. Compilation Introductory Note, Jill Harries 1. The Making of the Text, John Matthews 2. The Sources of the Code, Boudewijn Sirks 3. Some Quaestors of the Reign of Theodosius II, Tony Honoré Part II. Constantine, Christianity and the Code Introductory Note, Jill Harries 4. Hidden from History: the legislation of Licinius, Simon Corcoran 5. Constantine and Imperial Legislation on the Family, Judith Evans Grubbs 6. Christianising the Roman Empire: the evidence of the Code, David Hunt Part III. Nachleben: the Code in the Middle Ages Introductory Note, Ian Wood 7. The Code in Merovingian Gaul, Ian Wood 8. The Origins of the Collectio Sirmondiana: a new look at the evidence, Mark Vessey 9. From Benedict to Gratian: the Code in medieval ecclesiastical authors, Dafydd Walters Epilogue 10. Mommsen’s Encounter with the Code, Brian Croke Bibliography Index
£34.99
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Handbuch des Römischen Privatrechts
Book SynopsisDas Handbuch des Römischen Privatrechts gilt dem römischen Privat- und Zivilprozessrecht von den ältesten römischen Rechtsquellen bis zur Zeit Justinians. Erstmals seit fünfzig Jahren erfolgt eine umfassende Darstellung auf der Höhe des aktuellen Forschungsstandes. Das Werk bietet sachkundige Orientierung angesichts der Vielzahl der Forschungsgegenstände und der stetig reicher werdenden Sekundärliteratur. Es dient auch Althistorikern, Klassischen Philologen, anderen Geisteswissenschaftlern und Vertretern des geltenden Rechts als Nachschlagewerk und erhebt den Anspruch, ein Bezugspunkt der internationalen römisch-rechtlichen Forschung zu sein. Der Schwerpunkt der Darstellung liegt auf der Diskussion der spätrepublikanischen und kaiserzeitlichen römischen Jurisprudenz, wobei eine intensive Bezugnahme auf den Prozess erfolgt. Die juristische Papyrologie und Epigraphik sind ebenso berücksichtigt wie die provinziale Rechtspraxis.Das Handbuch erscheint in 2 Bänden und wird nur geschlossen abgegeben.
£600.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die coniunctio in testamentarischen Verfügungen
Book SynopsisDer Begriff coniunctio umschreibt in den erbrechtlichen Quellen meist eine vom Erblasser durch eine testamentarische Verfügung geschaffene Verbindung von einzelnen Erben oder Vermächtnisnehmern. Hierbei finden sich vor allem in Bezug auf anwachsungsrechtliche Fallgestaltungen unterschiedliche Aussagen zu der Frage, mit welchen Mitteln der Erblasser die coniunctio herstellen kann. Susanne Lösch untersucht daher durch ausführliche Exegesen, unter welchen Voraussetzungen eine Einsetzung in einem Testament als coniunctim zu bezeichnen ist. Den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit bildet dabei die Herausarbeitung der Problematik, dass der Begriff coniunctio von den klassischen Juristen einerseits zur Umschreibung der Tatbestandsvoraussetzungen der Anwachsung verwendet, andererseits aber auch für Fallkonstellationen gebraucht wurde, in denen er nicht zwingend die Rechtsfolge der Anwachsung herbeiführen musste.
£63.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Ius pontificium cum iure civili coniunctum: Das
Book SynopsisBei der Arrogation handelt es sich um ein aus archaischer Zeit stammendes Institut des römischen Rechts, welches durch Volksgesetz einen freien Mann in eine fremde Verwandtschaftsgruppe eingliedert und ihn der personenrechtlichen Gewalt eines anderen unterordnet. In klassischer Zeit wird die Arrogation als ein Sonderfall der Adoption wahrgenommen.Anna Margarete Seelentag geht von dem Gedanken aus, dass das Recht der Arrogation in besonderer Weise durch das Zusammenspiel der Rechtsschichten des ius pontificium und des ius civile gekennzeichnet ist. Dies wird anhand ausgewählter Arrogationskonstellationen, u.a. der Freigelassenenarrogation, der Unmündigenarrogation und der Arrogation eines Älteren durch einen Jüngeren, demonstriert. Dabei zeichnet die Autorin die Entwicklung des Arrogationsrechts in klassischer Zeit nach, welche sich als eine zunehmende Integration des Rechtsinstituts in das Privatrecht begreifen lässt.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Obligatio re contracta: Ein Beitrag zur
Book SynopsisGegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist die Kategorie der Realverträge im römischen Recht, deren Elemente nach herrschender Meinung das Darlehen ( mutuum), die Leihe ( commodatum), die Verwahrung ( depositum) und das Faustpfand ( pignus) sind. Sie wurzelt in der mittelalterlichen Rechtswissenschaft (sog. contractus re). Die römische Jurisprudenz kannte jedoch nur einen Entstehungsgrund einer obligatio re contracta, nämlich das mutuum, da für die römischen Juristen das re contrahere durch eine Eigentumsübertragung an einer Sache ( datio rei) charakterisiert war, nicht durch eine bloße Sachhingabe. Unsere Quellen sprechen maßgeblich dafür, dass die intellektuelle Heimat der Realvertraglichkeitvon commodatum, depositum und pignus nicht im klassischen römischen Recht zu finden ist. Die römische Kategorie der Realverträge, so wie wir sie uns vorstellen, stellt ein falsches retrospektives Konstrukt dar.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Actio Funeraria: Prinzip und Fall der
Book SynopsisWer im antiken Rom einen fremden Verstorbenen bestattete, konnte seine Aufwendungen mit der Bestattungsklage, der actio funeraria, von demjenigen verlangen, der für die Bestattung eigentlich zuständig gewesen war. Dies galt selbst dann, wenn dieser die Bestattung verboten hatte.Die Verfasser des BGB griffen bei der Kodifikation des § 679 BGB, der die verbotswidrige Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag zum Gegenstand hat, maßgeblich auf den Rechtsgedanken der actio funeraria zurück. Oliver Unger beleuchtet diesen Zusammenhang anhand der entstehungsgeschichtlichen Materialien. Er verortet die verbotswidrige Bestattung im Recht und der Rechtswirklichkeit des antiken Rom und analysiert die Behandlung bestattungsrechtlicher Verbotsfälle nach dem geltenden Recht der Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag.
£63.00
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Imperium: Die Rechtsnatur der Europäischen Union
Book SynopsisDie Europäische Union gilt in der staats- und völkerrechtlichen Forschung weder als Staatenbund noch als Bundesstaat, sondern als historisch einzigartige und unvergleichbare Ordnung "sui generis". Mit Blick auf die Geschichte imperialer Ordnungen ist der Diskurs über das Wesen der Europäischen Union aber stets unvollständig geblieben, obwohl diese wesentliche gemeinsame Merkmale haben. Dazu gehören neben ihrer Supranationalität und der Ausübung von Macht über andere Staaten die Ausdehnung und Entgrenzung ihrer Ordnung, ihr Universalismus und ihre innere kulturelle Vielfalt sowie die damit einhergehenden Differenzierungen der Verfassungen, Verträge und Rechtsordnungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie. Der vergleichende Blick auf das Römische und Britische Reich, daneben auch das Heilige Römische Reich und andere imperiale Gebilde offenbart mitunter erstaunlich aktuelle Parallelen zum Prozess der Europäischen Integration.
£145.70
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Menschen und Recht: Fallstudien zu Rechtsfragen
Book SynopsisWas passiert, wenn Menschliches - teils auch allzu Menschliches - und Juristisches auf der Komödienbühne der Antike aufeinandertreffen? Die Beiträger des vorliegenden Bandes präsentieren zu dieser Frage sieben Fallstudien, wovon vier im Rahmen eines Oberseminars über das Thema "Menschen und Recht in der griechischen und römischen Komödie" im Sommersemester 2011 an der Universität Göttingen unter der Leitung der beiden Herausgeber stattfanden. Sie wollen zeigen, wie in der griechischen und römischen Komödie - von Aristophanes bis Terenz - menschliche Beziehungen und juristische Gegebenheiten sich zu "dramatischen" Handlungsabläufen verbinden, die bis heute nicht an Aktualität eingebüßt haben.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Recht und Billigkeit: Zur Geschichte der
Book SynopsisWährend das, was geltende Gesetze sind und sollen (erst recht wenn sie geschrieben sind), kaum jemals ein Gegenstand von Kontroversen war, gehen und gingen die Lehrmeinungen hinsichtlich der Frage, was ἐπιείκεια, aequitas oder Billigkeit sei, in der Geschichte der Jurisprudenz und der Philosophie weit auseinander. Wie sich geltendes Recht und das elementare Gerechtigkeitsprinzip der Billigkeit zueinander verhalten, kann nur deutlich werden, wenn man die maßgeblichen historischen Positionen miteinander vergleicht. Zu diesem Zweck rollt der vorliegende Band die genannte Fragestellung interdisziplinär und anhand exemplarischer Antworten auf. In 22 Beiträgen widmen sich namhafte Expertinnen und Experten den historischen Positionen. Das Ergebnis ist ein Längsschnitt im Breitwandpanorama, das von Platon und Aristoteles bis zum BGB und zum Europäischen Gerichtshof reicht.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Causa contractus: Auf der Suche nach den
Book SynopsisDie europäische Tradition verbindet in der Rede von der causa die Frage nach dem Zweck eines konkreten Vertrages mit der Suche nach dem Grund für seine Geltung. In Frankreich wurde die Doktrin nicht einmal dadurch erledigt, dass man 2016 das Wort aus dem Code Civil strich. Umso weniger ist man in Italien geneigt, diesem Beispiel zu folgen; im Gegenteil blüht dort die causa -Lehre. Deutschen und englischen Juristen hingegen bleibt die causa als Erfordernis des Vertrages fremd, obgleich auch sie Zwecke in vielfältiger Weise berücksichtigen (insbesondere bei der Bewältigung von Störungen der Vertragsdurchführung). Das vorliegende Buch soll zur europäischen Verständigung beitragen. Dabei sind auch klaffende Unterschiede zwischen der französischen und der italienischen Lehre zu überbrücken. Aufbauend auf Dogmengeschichte und Rechtsvergleich wirft der Band Schlaglichter auf die Zukunft der causa in Europa. Er enthält Beiträge in deutscher, französischer, italienischer und englischer Sprache, die durch englische Einführungskapitel zusammengefasst werden.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Bridging Center and Periphery: Administrative
Book SynopsisLukas Lemcke challenges the conventional understanding of the Late Roman administration as a three-tiered system by demonstrating that its hierarchy of communication was distinctly two-tiered. In so doing, he offers a new perspective on the functional and organizational structure of this administrative system and advances our understanding of the vicariate by introducing a new functional dimension and by reassessing its development during the fifth and early sixth centuries. Based on a comprehensive collection of legal, epigraphic and other literary documents to which the concept of "formal communication" is applied, the author explores the forms and development of administrative communication channels that facilitated the official exchange of information from Constantine to Justinian and thus reveals how emperors actively sought to regulate the centripetal and centrifugal flow of official information.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) In causis vero dissentiamus: Exegese eines
Book SynopsisHans-Michael Empell untersucht ein Fragment des klassischen römischen Juristen Julian (zweites Jahrhundert n. Chr.), das in der Wissenschaft vom römischen Recht seit Jahrhunderten umstritten, jedoch heute noch von praktischer Bedeutung ist. Julian geht einer Frage nach, die sich auf die Voraussetzungen einer wirksamen Übereignung bezieht. Eine häufig vertretene Interpretation des Textes hat die Regelung der Übereignung im Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch beeinflusst (Abstraktionsprinzip). Dadurch unterscheidet sich das deutsche Zivilrecht von fast allen anderen Rechtsordnungen. Hans-Michael Empell entwickelt eine neue Deutung des Textes. Zudem versucht er, die bisher ungeklärte Frage zu beantworten, aus welchem Grund die berühmte Antinomie zwischen Julian und Ulpian entstanden ist: Die beiden Juristen waren unterschiedlicher Auffassung darüber, in welchem Umfang das Recht in Freundschaftsverhältnissen maßgeblich ist.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Itinera hereditatis: Strukturen der
Book SynopsisWie gelangen die Vermögenswerte eines verstorbenen Menschen in die Hände der auserkorenen Empfänger? Das deutsche Erbrecht bedient sich hierzu eines hochkomplexen Vollzugsapparats, der sich mit den Begriffen "Universalsukzession", "Vonselbsterwerb" und "Erbenhaftung" immer nur in Ausschnitten erfassen lässt. Auf der Grundlage einer eigens entwickelten Taxonomie der Nachlassabwicklung stellt Jan Peter Schmidt die BGB-Lösung in einen breiten historischen und rechtsvergleichenden Kontext und legt hierdurch die unter den nationalen Regeln und Begrifflichkeiten verborgenen Strukturelemente frei. Er zeigt, wieso sich die vielfältigen Interessenkonflikte nur in begrenztem Maße auflösen lassen, ermöglicht eine neue Sichtweise insbesondere auf das Thema der Erbenhaftung und leuchtet Spielräume für eine Reform der seit langem als unbefriedigend empfundenen deutschen Regelung aus.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Verwaltung und Recht in antiken
Book SynopsisWie waren antike "Staaten" organisiert und wie sicherten sie sowohl die Legitimation ihrer Ordnung als auch die Erfüllung der alltäglichen öffentlichen Aufgaben? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen analysiert und vergleicht die vorliegende Studie die frühen Herrschaftsordnungen in Mesopotamien und Ägypten, in Athen und in Rom aus einer juristisch-verwaltungswissenschaftlichen Perspektive und bedient sich dabei unter anderem der Methoden des Rechtsvergleichs. So gewinnen insbesondere die Unterschiede aber auch typische Ähnlichkeiten der Rechts- und Verwaltungsmechanismen an Kontur jenseits der Alternative von Monarchie, Aristokratie und Demokratie. Die Darstellung schließt mit einem exemplarischen Ausblick auf die Wirkungsgeschichte der antiken Herrschaftsformen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Die Entwicklung der romanistischen Methode bei
Book SynopsisZu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ging die unter dem Eindruck der Älteren Arbeitshypothese stehende Forschung davon aus, dass die Juristenschriften der sog. klassischen Zeit die justinianische Gesetzgebungskommission unberührt erreicht hätten. Daher rechnete man nur mit nachträglichen justinianischen Eingriffen (Interpolationen) in den überlieferten Texten. Fritz Schulz wurde zum Wegbereiter der Neuen Arbeitshypothese, die annahm, dass nahezu alle der besagten Schriften die justinianischen Kompilatoren bereits in mehr oder minder stark überarbeiteter Form erreicht hätten und machte so den Weg für eine differenziertere Betrachtungsweise frei. Philipp Rohdenburg zeichnet die verschiedenen Entwicklungsstufen auf diesem Weg anhand einzelner konkreter Quellenfragmente nach.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Mediävistik und Schadensrecht: Gedenkfeier
Book SynopsisHermann Lange hat eine eindrucksvolle und bedeutende Lebensleistung als Historiker des mittelalterlichen Rechts und als Dogmatiker des geltenden Zivilrechts, insbesondere des Schadensrechts, hinterlassen. Dies hat die Juristische Fakultät der Universität Tübingen, der Lange seit 1996 angehörte, zum Anlass genommen, ihn zu seinem hundertsten Geburtstag zu würdigen. Dabei bot sich vor allem die Gelegenheit zu einer Bestandsaufnahme der romanistischen Mediävistik. Denn Hermann Langes monumentales Werk Römisches Recht im Mittelalter , das in zwei Bänden (1997 und 2007) erschienen ist, darf als sein wichtigstes und dauerhaftestes wissenschaftliches Ergebnis angesehen werden.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Motivirrtum bei Schenkung und letztwilliger
Book SynopsisWährend das deutsche Recht eine Beachtlichkeit des Motivirrtums nur für letztwillige Verfügungen kennt, ist im französischen und österreichischen Recht der Motivirrtum auch bei Schenkungen beachtlich. Dieser Unterschied bei der Lösung einer zeitlosen Problemstellung ist angesichts des gemeinsamen Ursprungs der kontinentaleuropäischen Rechtsordnungen im römischen Recht bemerkenswert. Wie haben sich diese gesetzlichen Regelungen in Deutschland, Frankreich und Österreich entwickelt? Wie werden sie heute in Wissenschaft und Praxis gehandhabt? Und haben Rechtsprechung und Lehre in Deutschland funktionale Ersatztatbestände für eine Motivirrtumsanfechtung von Schenkungen geschaffen? Diese Fragen beantwortet Luca Wimmer aus rechtshistorischer und -vergleichender Perspektive und unterzieht die Lösung des deutschen Rechts einer kritischen Würdigung.
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Quintilians Rhetorik und die Disziplinen
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Mohr Siebeck Ordo testamenti
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Causa contractus: Auf der Suche nach den
Book SynopsisDie europäische Tradition verbindet in der Rede von der causa die Frage nach dem Zweck eines konkreten Vertrages mit der Suche nach dem Grund für seine Geltung. In Frankreich wurde die Doktrin nicht einmal dadurch erledigt, dass man 2016 das Wort aus dem Code Civil strich. Umso weniger ist man in Italien geneigt, diesem Beispiel zu folgen; im Gegenteil blüht dort die causa -Lehre. Deutschen und englischen Juristen hingegen bleibt die causa als Erfordernis des Vertrages fremd, obgleich auch sie Zwecke in vielfältiger Weise berücksichtigen (insbesondere bei der Bewältigung von Störungen der Vertragsdurchführung). Das vorliegende Buch soll zur europäischen Verständigung beitragen. Dabei sind auch klaffende Unterschiede zwischen der französischen und der italienischen Lehre zu überbrücken. Aufbauend auf Dogmengeschichte und Rechtsvergleich wirft der Band Schlaglichter auf die Zukunft der causa in Europa. Er enthält Beiträge in deutscher, französischer, italienischer und englischer Sprache, die durch englische Einführungskapitel zusammengefasst werden
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Mohr Siebeck Die Ausgestaltung der Grunddienstbarkeit
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Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. K Donatio perfecta
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