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This 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 Contents
Introduction: 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).

The Creation of the Ius Commune

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A Hardback by John W. Cairns, Paul du Plessis, K. Bezemer

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 30/07/2010
    ISBN13: 9780748638970, 978-0748638970
    ISBN10: 0748638970
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This 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 Contents
    Introduction: 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).

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