Contents
Introduction: Situating, Researching, and Writing Comparative Legal History
1‘In aliquibus locis est consuetudo’: French Lawyers and the Lombard Customs of Fiefs in the Mid-Thirteenth Century
2What Does Regiam maiestatem Actually Say (and What Does it Mean)?
3James VI and I, rex et iudex: One King as Judge in Two Kingdoms
4George Harris and the Comparative Legal Background of the First English Translation of Justinian’s Institutes
5The Nature of Custom: Legal Science and Comparative Legal History in Blackstone’s Commentaries
6Through a Glass Darkly: English Common Law Seen through the Lens of the Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen (Eighteenth Century)
7Looking Afresh at the French Roots of Continuous Easements in English Law
9Leone Levi (1821–1888) and the History of Comparative Commercial Law
10Radical Title of the Crown and Aboriginal Title: North America 1763, New South Wales 1788, and New Zealand 1840
11The High Court of Australia at Mid-Century: Concealed Frustrations, Private Advocacy, and the Break with English Law
12English Societal Laws as the Origins of the Comprehensive Slave Laws of the British West Indies