Critical studies in ancient law, comparative law and legal history / edited by John W. Cairns and Olivia F. Robinson.

Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2001.

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Critical studies in ancient law, comparative law and legal history : essays in honour of Alan Watson.

Ancient law.

Comparative law.

Law -- History.

Roman law.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Roman law: 1. Was acceptilatio an informal act in classical Roman law? / Hans Ankum

2. Solutio and traditio / J L Barton

3. Actor and defendant on negatoria servitutis / L Capogrossi Colognesi

4. Some reflections on history and dogma as jurists' tools / Giuliano Crifò

5. D.33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) revisited / Robert Feenstra

6. Death, taxes and status in Pliny's Panegyricus / Jane F Gardner

7. Translation and interpretation / William M Gordan

8. The Case of the deliberate wine spill / Herbert Hausmaninger

9. De Iurisprudentia / Neil MacCormick

10. Pigs, boars and livestock under the Lex Acquilia / Grant McCleod

11. Galba negabat / A D Manfredini

12. Partes iuris / Theo Mayer-Maly

13. Unas testis nullus testis / Anonino Metro

14. Unpardonable crimes: fourth century attitudes / Olivia F Robinson

15. The Praetor hoist with his own petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 / Alan F Rodger

16. Maiestas in the late republic: some observations / Robin Seager

Other ancient laws: 17. Oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law: d'varim haniknim ba'amira and dotis dictio / Ranon Katzoff

18. Cause, status and fault in the traditional Chinese law of homicide / Geoffrey MacCormack

19. The Septuagint as nomos: how the Torah became a "civic law" for the Jews of Egypt / Joseph Mélèze Mordrzejewski

20. Basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy / Reuven Yaron

Transplants, receptions and comparisons: 21. The Education and qualification of civil lawyers in historical perspective: from jurists and orators to advocates, procurators and notaries / Hans W Baade

22. The Moveable text of McKenzie: bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing / John W Cairns

23. Restitution, reception, recompense and unjustified enrichment in Scottish law / Robin Evans-Jones and Phillip Hellwage

24. John Adams and the whale / Andrew D E Lewis

25. Leibniz's Elementia Iuris Civilis and the private law of his time / Klaus Luig

26. Classifying crimes / R A A McCall Smith

27. The Shifting focus of adoption / Joseph Webb McKnight

28. Girth: society and the law of sanctuary in Scotland

29. Descendit ad inferos: and Belial sued Jesus Christ for trespass / Eltjo Schrage

30. Saving souls through adoption: legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies / A J B Sirks

31. Legal change and Scots private law / Joe Thomson

32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a classical maxim of legislation / Andreas Wacke

33. Kasper Manz, a German jurist in the seventeenth century: a man of theory and practice / Gunter Wesener

34. A Note on regulae juris in Roman law and on Dworkin's distinction between rules and principles / Laurens Winkel.

Includes index of (Roman and some other) texts discussed and index of proper names and topics.

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