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Book SynopsisThis important collection of essays is at the cutting edge of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. The international and distinguished group of authors address some of the most lively contemporary problems in their respective fields, and provide new perspectives and insights in a wide range of areas. With a firm focus on texts and contexts, the papers come together to provide a coherent volume dedicated to one of the greatest contemporary Romanists, legal historians and comparative lawyers. The book covers Professor Watson's main fields of interest in a clear and accessible form, while also making available the scholarship of some individuals who do not normally publish in English. This fully-indexed volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of Roman law, ancient Jewish and Chinese law, legal history and comparative law, and will be useful for teaching and research in these fields.
Trade ReviewLes lecteurs jurists seront sans doute captivs par cette tude de la problmatique des institutions anciennes dans le contexte de leur influence et de leurs rapports avec le droit actuel. A. M. Revue Internationale de droit Compare March 2001 The challenge for the cataloger is providing access to the many fine essays in an eclectic work. Gretchen Feltes International Journal of Legal Information June 2002
Table of ContentsRoman law: was acceptilatio an informal act in classical Roman law?, Hans Ankum; solutio and traditio, J. L. Barton; actor and defendant in negatoria servitutis, L. Capogross Colognesi; some reflections on history and dogma as jurists' tools, Guiliano Crifo; D.33.1.20.1 (scaevola 18 dig.) revisited, Robert Feenstra; death, taxes and status in Pliny's "Panegyricus", Jane F. Gardner; translation and interpretation, William M. Gordon; the case of the deliberate wine spill, Herbert Hausmaninger; de jurisprudentia, Neil MacCormick; pigs, boars and livestock under the lex aquilia, Grant McLeod; "galba negabat", A.D. Manfredini; partes iuris, Theo Mayer-Maly; unus testis nullus testis, Antonino Metro; unpardonable crimes - fourth century attitudes, O.F. Robinson; the praetor hoist with his own petard - the palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10, Alan Rodger; maiestas in the late republic - some observations, Robin Seager. Other ancient laws: oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law - d'varim haniknim ba'amira and dotis dictio, Ranon Katzoff; cause, status and fault in the traditional Chinese law of homicide, Geoffrey MacCormack; the septuagint as nomos - how the Torah became a "civic law" for the Jews of Egypt, Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski; basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy, Reuven Yaron. Transplants, receptions and comparisons: the education and qualification of civil lawyers in historical perspective - from jurists and orators to advocates, procurators and notaries, Hans W. Baade; the moveable text of MacKenzie - bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing, John W. Cairns; restitution, repetition, recompense and unjustified enrichment in Scots law, Robin Evans-Jones; John Adams and the whale, Andrew Lewis; Leibniz's "Elementa Iuris Civilis" and the private law of his time, Klaus Luig; classifying crimes, R.A.A. McCall Smith; the shifting focus of adoption, Joseph W. McKnight; girth - society and the law of sanctuary in Scotland, Hector L. MacQueen; descendit ad inferos - and Belial sued Jesus Christ for trespass, Eltjo Schrage; saving souls through adoption - legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies, A. J.B. Sirks; legal chance and Scots private law, Joe Thomson; quod raro fit, non observant legislatores - a classical maxim of legislation, Andreas Wacke; Kasper Manz, a German jurist in the seventeenth century - a man of theory and practice, Gunter Wesener; a note on regulae luris in Roman law and on Dworkin's distinction between rules and principles, Laurens Winkel.
