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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2016 Roman Law in Poland-Lithuania in the Light of Aleksander Mickiewicz’s 1829 Lecture on Polish Civil Law Summary The Polish Academy of Sciences library collection at Kórnik holds a manuscript with a lecture on Polish civil law and its history ...
Sławomir Godek
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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Study of Law in Roman Law Schools
, 1908 Roman law, which furnished to the world the priceless gift of a completed system of private law actually answering "to the true nature of private law" is still "of great practical importance to the American lawyer of the future," "The civil law, for ...
Sherman, Charles
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Civil Modes of Acquiring Property in Roman Private Law
, 2023 ABSTRACT: Ius civile regulates legal relations between Roman citizens. The dominium mentality of the Romans led them to pay more attention to the legal relations specific to the possession of goods. During ancient times, when the Romans were a people of shepherds and farmers, the norms of the old Civil Law established the legal institution of ...
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Iniuria in Roman law and the corresponding concepts in contemporary Croatian law
, 2023 U ovom diplomskom radu analizira se delikt rimskog prava – iniuria, i to njegov razvitak kroz različita razdoblja rimskog prava i naposljetku uz paralele s odgovarajućim institutima u suvremenom hrvatskom pravu.
Stipić, Nika
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The usucaptionn in the Czech and Roman law
Journal on European History of Law, 2011 The article describes the evolution of the usucaption in civil codes on territory of Czech Republic in 19th and 20th century in the comparison to Roman Law. The bearing of the Czech legal regulation on the Roman law changed in the time.
Pavel Salák
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OWNERSHIP TRANSFER AND SELLER’S OBLIGATIONS. LOOKING FOR UNITY IN SALE AGREEMENT REGULATION [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2019 The Renaissance intelectuals, mostly Italians, considered Rome the climax of the European civilization and from this assumption it seemed self - evident that the Roman law was superior to any kind of regulation of other people in the Middle Ages. Later,
Dan VELICU
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis of surveys conducted by HM Inspectorate of Prisons for England and Wales of 87,449 adult male prisoners between the years 2000 and 2020. It describes the survey methodology and focuses on the 13,025 people who reported feeling unsafe.
Nicholas Hardwick +2 more
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