EAN: 9783319122670

ROMAN LAW AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CIVIL LAW TRAD...

This unique publication offers a complete history of Roman law  from its early beginnings
through to its resurgence in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century.
Besides a detailed overview of the sources of Roman law  the book also includes sections on
private and criminal law and procedure  with special attention given to those aspects of Roman
law that have particular importance to today's lawyer. The last three chapters of the book
offer an overview of the history of Roman law from the early Middle Ages to modern times and
illustrate the way in which Roman law furnished the basis of contemporary civil law systems. In
this part  special attention is given to the factors that warranted the revival and subsequent
reception of Roman law as the 'common law' of Continental Europe. Combining the perspectives of
legal history with those of social and political history  the book can be profitably read by
students and scholars  as well as by general readers with an interest in ancient and early
European legal history.The civil law tradition is the oldest legal tradition in the world today
embracing many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe  Latin America and other
parts of the world. Despite the considerable differences in the substantive laws of civil law
countries  a fundamental unity exists between them. The most obvious element of unity is the
fact that the civil law systems are all derived from the same sources and their legal
institutions are classified in accordance with a commonly accepted scheme existing prior to
their own development  which they adopted and adapted at some stage in their history. Roman law
is both in point of time and range of influence the first catalyst in the evolution of the
civil law tradition.

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