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Economics of Ancient Law: The Laws of Manu on Contracts
AbstractAncient law can be analyzed using economic tools. With a renewed interest from the political class to make the ancient Laws of Manu (Manu’sDharmaśāstra) more relevant to modern Indian law, the economic analysis of the Laws of Manu regarding contracts allows us to look at the issue from an efficiency standpoint.
Bose, Feler
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
The economic analysis of ancient law assumes that neither human nature nor the fundamental problems of economic organization were substantially different in ancient times than they are today. Given those assumptions, ancient social organization, including ancient law, can be analysed in economic terms.
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The economic analysis of ancient law assumes that neither human nature nor the fundamental problems of economic organization were substantially different in ancient times than they are today. Given those assumptions, ancient social organization, including ancient law, can be analysed in economic terms.
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2018
This chapter gives an overview of law in ancient Greece. After discussing the unity of Greek law and scholarship on Greek law, it reviews the evidence for law in Gortyn (in Crete), including the Gortyn Law Code, in Sparta, and at greater length in Athens, which is best documented. Athens had a highly democratic legal system.
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This chapter gives an overview of law in ancient Greece. After discussing the unity of Greek law and scholarship on Greek law, it reviews the evidence for law in Gortyn (in Crete), including the Gortyn Law Code, in Sparta, and at greater length in Athens, which is best documented. Athens had a highly democratic legal system.
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Rome and the Economics of Ancient Law I
2020This chapter serves as an introduction to the essays in this collection by exploring the ways in which contemporary economic theory can be used to ask new questions about the law and economies of ancient societies. The chapter begins with a review of the importance of Roman law as an academic discipline to legal historians.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.Collective sanctions on classical Athens -- An economic perspective on marriage alliances in Ancient Greece -- Assumption of risk in Athenian law -- Rivers, rights, and "Romanization" -- Justice in Aelian's ...
Thomas McGinn, Dennis Kehoe
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2022
The subject of the book is law in Greek antiquity, focusing in particular on the classical...
Youni, Maria, Delios, Athanasios
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The subject of the book is law in Greek antiquity, focusing in particular on the classical...
Youni, Maria, Delios, Athanasios
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An Expert Thesaurus for Ancient Law
1991Problems related to Natural Language Processing can be treated only when knowledge can be limited to a specific domain. This is the case for the expert system IRIDA (Intelligent Information Retrieval for Ancient Law). The IRIDA knowledge base possesses all the requisites needed to facilitate intelligent information retrieval, together with the ...
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The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000This article considers the emergence and evolution of punitive and compensatory remedies in ancient law. I describe how ancient practices of retaliation gradually evolved, through four general phases, into rules requiring victim's compensation. I suggest that the Biblical lex talionis ("eye for an eye . . .
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2012
This hugely influential work of 1861 is probably the one for which Sir Henry Maine (1822–88) is best remembered. Appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge when he was only twenty-five, Maine then became Reader in Roman law and jurisprudence at the Council of Legal Education, which had been established in London in 1852 by the Inns of Court ...
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This hugely influential work of 1861 is probably the one for which Sir Henry Maine (1822–88) is best remembered. Appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge when he was only twenty-five, Maine then became Reader in Roman law and jurisprudence at the Council of Legal Education, which had been established in London in 1852 by the Inns of Court ...
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