The Evolution of Western private law / Alan Watson.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Expanded ed.

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Jurisprudence.

Law -- History.

Civil law -- History.

Common law -- History.

Roman law -- History.

1. Legislation

2. Jurists

3. Judges

4. Custom

5. Legislation and jurists: French délit

6. Jurists, judges, custom, legislation: water rights

7. Legal transplants 1 : the cause of the reception of Roman law

8. Legal transplants 2 : other receptions

9. The Case of English common law

10. Humanism, the law of reason, codification

11. Conclusions.

Includes index.

0801864844

xv, 320 p.