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The philosophical origins of modern contract doctrine / James Gordley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordley, James, author.
- Series:
- Clarendon law series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Clarendon law series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contracts--History.
- Contracts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.
- Summary:
- The common law of England and the USA and the civil law of continental Europe have a similar doctrinal structure. This book argues that this structure was created in the 16th century in an attempt to synthesize Roman law and the moral philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas.
- Contents:
- Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
- Roman law and the medieval jurists
- Synthesis
- Discontinuity in the natural law tradition
- The Anglo-American reception
- The nineteenth-century reformulation
- Liberalism and nineteenth-century contract law
- Conclusion
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p249-255. - Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780191024467
- 0191024465
- 9781383014259
- 1383014256
- 9780198256649
- 0198256647
- 9780191029615
- 0191029610
- OCLC:
- 869096254
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07873 hdl
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