Author | : Bruce W. Frier |
Publisher | : Society for Classical Studies |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195161861 |
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Author | : Bruce W. Frier |
Publisher | : Society for Classical Studies |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195161861 |
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Author | : Cynthia Jordan Bannon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Riparian rights (Roman law). |
ISBN | : 9780472037865 |
Engaging study of key issues in Roman water regulation from legal and environmental history, both ancient and modern
Author | : Bruce W. Frier |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2021-05-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019757324X |
Roman contract law has profoundly influenced subsequent legal systems throughout the world, but is inarguably an important subject in its own right. This casebook introduces students to the rich body of Roman law concerning contracts between private individuals. In order to bring out the intricacy of Roman contract law, the casebook employs the case-law method--actual Roman texts, drawn from Justinian's Digest and other sources, are presented both in Latin and English, along with introductions and discussions that fill out the background of the cases and explore related legal issues. This method reflects the casuistic practices of the jurists themselves: concentrating on the fact-rich environment in which contracts are made and enforced, while never losing sight of the broader principles upon which the jurists constructed the law. The casebook concentrates especially on stipulation and sale, which are particularly well represented in surviving sources. Beyond these and other standard contracts, the book also has chapters on the capacity to contract, the creation of third-party rights and duties, and the main forms of unjustified enrichment. What students can hope to learn from this casebook is not only the general outlines and details of Roman contract law, but also how the jurists developed such law out of rudimentary civil procedures. An online teacher's manual is available for instructors; to access it, see page xxi of the Casebook.
Author | : Bruce W. Frier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
This casebook is designed to introduce the Roman law concerning delicts, private wrongs which broadly resemble torts in Anglo-American law. The Roman law of delict is unusually interesting, since many basic Roman principles of delict are still prominent in modern legal systems, while other Roman principles offer sharp and important contrasts with modern ideas. The influence of Roman law has been especially strong in the Civil Law systems of Continental Europe and its former dependencies, since these systems derive many basic principles from Roman law; but Roman influence on Anglo-American law has also been appreciable in some areas, although not usually in tort. A casebook relies on direct use of primary sources in order to convey a clear understanding of what legal sources are like and how lawyers work. For Roman law, the primary sources are above all the writings of the early imperial Roman jurists. Almost all their writings date to the classical period of Roman law, approximately 30 B.C. to A.D. 235 The 171 Cases in this book all derive from the writings of pre-classical and classical jurists.
Author | : Andrew M. Riggsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052168711X |
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author | : Richard P. Saller |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780521599788 |
This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.
Author | : Richard Gamauf |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2012-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199791112 |
This volume introduces Roman property law by means of "cases" consisting of brief excerpts from Roman juristic sources in Latin with English translations. The cases are followed by series of analytical questions and translated excerpts from modern civil codes to illustrate the dynamic character and continuing life of the Roman legal tradition.
Author | : André Nollkaemper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0198739745 |
The Oxford ILDC online database, an online collection of domestic court decisions which apply international law, has been providing scholars with insights for many years. This ILDC Casebook is the perfect companion, introducing key court decisions with brief introductory and connecting texts. An ideal text for practitioners, judged, government officials, as well as for students on international law courses, the ILDC Casebook explains the theories and doctrines underlying the use by domestic courts of international law, and illustrates the key importance of domestic courts in the development of international law.
Author | : Walter Scheidel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004115255 |
This volume provides the first comprehensive survey of current methods, progress and debates in Roman demography, and offers new insights into key issues of population change and reproductive behaviour in the Roman world from Italy to Egypt.