This important collection of essays is at the cutting edge of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. The international and distinguished group of authors address some of the most lively contemporary problems in their respective fields, and provide new perspectives and insights in a wide range of areas. With a firm focus on texts and contexts, the papers come together to provide a coherent volume dedicated to one of the greatest contemporary Romanists, legal historians and comparative lawyers. The book covers Professor Watson's main fields of interest in a clear and accessible form, while also making available the scholarship of some individuals who do not normally publish in English. This fully-indexed volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of Roman law, ancient Jewish and Chinese law, legal history and comparative law, and will be useful for teaching and research in these fields.
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Les lecteurs jurists seront sans doute captivs par cette tude de la problmatique des institutions anciennes dans le contexte de leur influence et de leurs rapports avec le droit actuel. A. M. Revue Internationale de droit Compare March 2001 The challenge for the cataloger is providing access to the many fine essays in an eclectic work. Gretchen Feltes International Journal of Legal Information June 2002
The Contributors xi Abbreviations xv Introduction xvii ROMAN LAW Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? 3(12) Hans Ankum Solutio and Traditio 15(16) J L Barton Actor and Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis 31(6) L Capogrossi Colognesi Some Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists Tools 37(8) Giuliano Crifo D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited 45(6) Robert Feenstra Death, Taxes and Status in Plinys Panegyricus 51(10) Jane F. Gardner Translation and Interpretation 61(12) William M. Gordon The Case of the Deliberate Wine Spill 73(6) Herbert Hausmaninger De Lurisprudentia 79(4) Neil Maccormick Pigs, Boars and Livestock under the Lex Aquilia 83(10) Grant Mcleod ``Galba Negabat 93(10) A D Manfredini Partes Iuris 103(6) Theo Mayer-Maly ``Unus Testis Nullus Testis 109(8) Antonino Metro Unpardonable Crimes: Fourth Century Attitudes 117(10) O F Robinson The Praetor Hoist with his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 127(16) Alan Rodger Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations 143(14) Robin Seager OTHER ANCIENT LAWS Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: Dvarim Haniknim Baamira and Dotis Dictio 157(16) Ranon Katzoff Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of Homicide 173(10) Geoffrey Maccormack The Septuagint as Nomos: How the Torah became a ``Civic Law for the Jews of Egypt 183(18) Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy 201(12) Reuven Yaron TRANSPLANTS, RECEPTIONS AND COMPARISONS The Education and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in Historical Perspective: From Jurists and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries 213(22) Hans W Baade The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing 235(14) John W Cairns Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified Enrichment in Scots Law 249(12) Robin Evans-Jones Phillip Hellwege John Adams and the Whale 261(6) Andrew Lewis Leibnizs Elementa Iuris Civilis and the Private Law of his Time 267(16) Klaus Luig Classifying Crimes 283(14) R A A Mccall Smith The Shifting Focus of Adoption 297(36) Joseph W McKnight Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland 333(20) Hector L Macqueen Descendit ad Inferos: And Belial Sued Jesus Christ for Trespass 353(12) Eltjo Schrage Saving Souls through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies 365(14) A J B Sirks Legal Change and Scots Private Law 379(14) Joe Thomson Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical Maxim of Legislation 393(6) Andreas Wacke Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in the Seventeenth Century: A Man of Theory and Practice 399(14) Gunter Wesener A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on Dworkins Distinction between Rules and Principles 413(6) Laurens Winkel Index of (Roman and some other) texts discussed 419(2) Index of proper names and topics 421
John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia Robinson teaches at Glasgow University.
