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The creation of the lus commune : from Casus to Regula / edited by John W. Cairns and Paul J. du Plessis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cairns, John W., Author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies in law ; v. 7.
- Edinburgh studies in law ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law, Medieval.
- Common law--Roman influences.
- Common law.
- Common law--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe.
- Contents:
- Introduction / John W. Cairns and Paul J. du Plessis
- The sources of medieval learned law / Harry Dondorp and Eltjo J.H. Schrage
- The infrastructure of the early ius commune : the formation of regulae, or its failure / Kees Bezemer
- Ius quarens intellectum : the method of the medieval civilians / James Gordley
- Medieval family and marriage law : from actions of status to legal doctrine / Laurent L.J.M. Waelkens
- The Roman concept of ownership and the medieval doctrine of dominium utile / Thomas Rüfner
- Succession to fiefs : a ius commune feudorum? / Magnus Ryan
- Towards the medieval law of hypothec / Paul J. du Plessis
- The ignorant seller's liability for latent defects : one regula or various sets of rules? / Jan Hallebeek
- The glossators' monetary law / Wolfgang Ernst
- Citations and the construction of procedural law in the ius commune / Richard H. Helmholz
- Doctoribus bona dona danda sunt : actions to recover unpaid legal fees / James A. Brundage.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612749971
- 9780748651481
- 0748651489
- 9781282749979
- 1282749978
- 9780748642922
- 0748642927
- OCLC:
- 664806051
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