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The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law
American Law and Economics Review, 2000This paper 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 ... life for a life) and similar rules that emerged in
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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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The Law of Property in Ancient Roman Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017This paper addresses the Roman law of ownership and the rights that modified it, including, for instance, the rights of predial servitude and usufruct. Classic Roman jurists focused on private property over other kinds, such as sacred property and public property.
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Legal Information Management, 2012
In this article David Ibbetson takes a perspective from the ancient world. A number of texts of Roman law are concerned with injuries arising in the course of athletics. They are particularly concerned with blameworthy killings, and constitute some of the most fundamental texts at the historical base of modern negligence liability.
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In this article David Ibbetson takes a perspective from the ancient world. A number of texts of Roman law are concerned with injuries arising in the course of athletics. They are particularly concerned with blameworthy killings, and constitute some of the most fundamental texts at the historical base of modern negligence liability.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This article published in the Whittier Law Review shows that torts professors commonly teach that a previously absent or barbaric tort law evolved out of the medieval laws of England. Historical and contemporary analysis of ancient texts shows that it did not.
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This article published in the Whittier Law Review shows that torts professors commonly teach that a previously absent or barbaric tort law evolved out of the medieval laws of England. Historical and contemporary analysis of ancient texts shows that it did not.
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Status quaestionis (Zagreb), 2007
U radu se prikazuju prvi pokušaji utemeljenja i objašnjenja prava u predfilozofskom (mitološkom), kozmološkom, antropološkom, ontološkom razdoblju grčke te etičkom i religioznom razdoblju helenističke rimske filozofije. Antička misao o pravu i pravednosti je, u svojoj osnovi, prirodno-pravna koncepcija nastala najprije kao bunt protiv postojećeg, da bi
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U radu se prikazuju prvi pokušaji utemeljenja i objašnjenja prava u predfilozofskom (mitološkom), kozmološkom, antropološkom, ontološkom razdoblju grčke te etičkom i religioznom razdoblju helenističke rimske filozofije. Antička misao o pravu i pravednosti je, u svojoj osnovi, prirodno-pravna koncepcija nastala najprije kao bunt protiv postojećeg, da bi
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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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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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Economics of Ancient Law: The Laws of Manu on Contracts
Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 2023Feler Bose
exaly