Book contents
- Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
- Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- 2 What Does Regiam maiestatem Actually Say (and What Does it Mean)?
- 3 James VI and I, rex et iudex: One King as Judge in Two Kingdoms
- 4 George Harris and the Comparative Legal Background of the First English Translation of Justinian’s Institutes
- 5 The Nature of Custom: Legal Science and Comparative Legal History in Blackstone’s Commentaries
- 6 Through a Glass Darkly: English Common Law Seen through the Lens of the Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen (Eighteenth Century)
- 7 Looking Afresh at the French Roots of Continuous Easements in English Law
- 8 Case Law in Germany: The Significance of Seuffert’s Archiv
- 9 Leone Levi (1821–1888) and the History of Comparative Commercial Law
- 10 Radical Title of the Crown and Aboriginal Title: North America 1763, New South Wales 1788, and New Zealand 1840
- 11 The High Court of Australia at Mid-Century: Concealed Frustrations, Private Advocacy, and the Break with English Law
- 12 English Societal Laws as the Origins of the Comprehensive Slave Laws of the British West Indies
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
- Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- 2 What Does Regiam maiestatem Actually Say (and What Does it Mean)?
- 3 James VI and I, rex et iudex: One King as Judge in Two Kingdoms
- 4 George Harris and the Comparative Legal Background of the First English Translation of Justinian’s Institutes
- 5 The Nature of Custom: Legal Science and Comparative Legal History in Blackstone’s Commentaries
- 6 Through a Glass Darkly: English Common Law Seen through the Lens of the Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen (Eighteenth Century)
- 7 Looking Afresh at the French Roots of Continuous Easements in English Law
- 8 Case Law in Germany: The Significance of Seuffert’s Archiv
- 9 Leone Levi (1821–1888) and the History of Comparative Commercial Law
- 10 Radical Title of the Crown and Aboriginal Title: North America 1763, New South Wales 1788, and New Zealand 1840
- 11 The High Court of Australia at Mid-Century: Concealed Frustrations, Private Advocacy, and the Break with English Law
- 12 English Societal Laws as the Origins of the Comprehensive Slave Laws of the British West Indies
- Index
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- Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial LawEssays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries, pp. 323 - 338Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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