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Alan Watson.
Legal Origins and Legal Change.
Published London: Hambledon Press, 1991.
ISBN 1852850485.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 163×240×29mm.
Page count: ix,321pp.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: this copy was not supplied shrink-wrapped by the manufacturer, so shows some evidence of long-term storage, the usual mild scuffs etc.

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[Publisher’s price £50.00]
Weight without packaging: 691g.

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Collects a number of previously published essays. Emphasis pre-medieval, mostly concerned with Roman private law.

Contents:
Law of actions & development of substantive law in the early Roman Republic;
Usu farre(o) coemptione;
Limits of juristic decision in the later Roman Republic;
Narrow, rigid & literal interpretation in the later Roman Republic;
Private law in the rescripts of Carus, Carinus & Numerianus;
Rescripts of the Emperor Probus (272-282 AD);
Sources of law & legal culture;
Roman private law & the Leges regiae;
The death of Horatia;
Original meaning of pauperies;
Tignum iunctum, the XII Tables & a lost word;
Emptio, ‘Taking’;
Ius Aelianum & Tripertita;
Origins of Fiducia;
Origins of consensual sale — a hypothesis;
Consensual societas between Romans & the introduction of the formulae;
Early history of Fideicommissa;
Some cases of distortion by the past in classical Roman law;
Development of marital justifications for Malitiosa desertio;
Law of citations & classical texts in the post-classical period;
Prehistory of contracts with especial reference to Roman law;
Notion of equivalence of contractual obligation & classical Roman partnership;
Illogicality & Roman law;
Morality, slavery & the jurists in the later Roman Republic;
Roman slave law & Romanist ideology;
Legal transplants & law reform;
The justice of the U.S. constitution.

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