Download or read book Critical Studies in Ancient Law Comparative Law and Legal History written by Alan Watson and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focused on texts and contexts is dedicated to a great contemporary Romanist, legal historian and comparative lawyer: Professor Watson.
Download or read book Ancient Law and Modern Understanding written by Alan Watson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ancient Law and Modern Understanding Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature. "Law, though technical," he writes, "is not remote from scholarship on other matters, and law is a central element in society." From Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, Watson examines law's influence. Without a sensitivity to technical legal language, scholars of literature or history miss much: the use of puns in Plautus, Sulla's claim that Julius Caesar was descended from a slave, the relationship between the Synoptic Gospels. Legal history is an essential tool for understanding society, Watson argues, but it must be applied with knowledge of how law moves from one society to the next, legal reliance on authority, juristic concern with apparent trivia, and the impact on legal growth.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Sir Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Sir Henry Sumner Maine and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Ancient Law: Its Connection With The Early History Of Society, And Its Relation To Modern Ideas Sir Henry Sumner Maine null C. Scribner, 1871 Law; Jurisprudence; Comparative law; Law; Law / Jurisprudence; Law / Legal History; Primitive societies
Download or read book Ancient Law written by H J S Maine and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Law Comparative Law written by Alan Watson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry James Sumner Maine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Law is a legal treatise by Henry James Sumner Maine. It dives into the development of ancient Roman laws, bridging the ancient to the modern in a logical manner.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Maine and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Comparative Legal Methods written by Monateri, Pier and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical, normative, theoretical, and economic methodologies, Pier Giuseppe Monateri offers a fresh critical analysis of various dimensions of comparative law methods. Comprehensive and engaging with a multidisciplinary approach, this Advanced Introduction spans the fields of comparative legal studies, law and finance and global law.
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spirit of Roman Law written by Alan Watson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ancient Law Its Connection with the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Henry Sumner Maine and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Law written by Sir Henry Sumner Maine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. Even those who have never read Ancient Law may find Maine's famous phrase "from status to contract" familiar. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, and the modern one, in which individuals are viewed as autonomous beings, free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose. Maine's dichotomy between status-based societies and contract-based societies is a variation on a theme that has absorbed the social sciences for a century: the distinction between Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaft (society). This theme has been elaborated upon by such eminent scholars as Tonnies, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, and Parsons. Along with many lesser scholars, they have considered what we gained and what we lost when we left behind a social world held together by communal, primordial bonds, and adopted one based upon impersonal temporary agreements among individuals. Maine wrote Ancient Law to increase knowledge about the internal mechanics of developing societies. He felt a key objective was better understanding of how law develops over time. Failure to understand temporal processes in relation to legal development, he argues, leads to the creation of false dichotomies. The most important of these is the alleged division between the ancient and the modern, which Maine described as an "imaginary barrier" at which modern scholars feel they must stop and go no further. Maine's desire to breach this barrier led him to present this complex and richly nuanced analysis of legal evolution. This book will be of interest to historians, political philosophers, and those interested in the development of law.
