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29 produkter
Six Centuries of Criminal Law
History of Criminal Law in the Southern Netherlands and Belgium (1400-2000)
Inbunden, 2014
2808 kr
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The first overview of the history of criminal law in the area that is currently within the territory of Belgium. Jos Monballyu treats both the sources of criminal law, the different judicial bodies that dealt with criminal issues, the general characteristics of the offences, the manifestations of …
Painting Constitutional Law
Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights
Av M.C. Mirow
Inbunden, 2021
2244 kr
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In May It Please the Court, artist Xavier Cortada portrays ten significant decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States that originated from people, places, and events in Florida. These cases cover the rights of criminal defendants, the rights of free speech and free exercise of religion, …
Companion to Latin American Legal History
Av M.C. Mirow
Inbunden, 2023
2436 kr
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This comprehensive volume offers fresh insights on Latin American and Caribbean law before European contact, during the colonial and early republican eras and up to the present. It considers the history of legal education, the legal profession, Indigenous legal history, and the legal history …
Reason and Fairness
Constituting Justice in Europe, from Medieval Canon Law to ECHR
Av Ulrike Müßig
Inbunden, 2019
3072 kr
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Throughout Europe, the exercise of justice rests on judicial independence by impartiality. In Reason and Fairness Ulrike Müßig reveals the combination of ordinary judicial competences with procedural rationality, together with the complementarity of procedural and substantive justice, as the …
Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland (Early Modern Period–Nineteenth Century)
Av Katja Tikka
Inbunden, 2020
2255 kr
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The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland provides a broad perspective on recent research into the history of North European commercial law in a comparative and international framework. The book brings together themes that have previously been considered largely from a national …
History of Civil Law in Early China: Cases, Statutes, Concepts and Beyond
Inbunden, 2022
1885 kr
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How did people solve their disputes over debt, compensation, inheritance and other civil matters in early China? Did they go to court? How did the authorities view those problems? Using recently excavated early Chinese legal materials, Zhang Zhaoyang makes the compelling argument that civil law was …
Loans and Credit in Consilia and Decisiones in the Low Countries (c. 1500-1680)
Av Wouter Druwé
Inbunden, 2020
4083 kr
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Based on consilia and decisiones, Wouter Druwé studies the multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries, such as money lending and the taking of …
Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. II: Public Law)
Studies in Comparative Legal History
Inbunden, 2019
1948 kr
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The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernisation – transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernisation, determining the development of modern law, …
Law, Language and Change
A Diachronic Semantic Analysis of Consideration in the Common Law
Inbunden, 2020
2041 kr
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In this monograph, Caroline Laske traces the advent of consideration in English contract law, by analysing the doctrinal development, in parallel with the corresponding terminological evolution and semantic shifts between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is an innovative, …
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Inbunden, 2023
2376 kr
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From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wished to marry their cousins or in-laws. This aim was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy as well as economically precarious households counted on related marriage …
National Tradition or Western Pattern?
Concepts of New Administrative System for the Congress Kingdom of Poland (1814-1815)
Inbunden, 2020
1945 kr
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In the history of the development of Polish law and administration, the short period of the constitutional Duchy of Warsaw, and next of the Kingdom of Poland, was a special time. This is because it was the only moment in the 19th century when the Polish elites gained an opportunity to concentrate …
Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
Av Serge Dauchy
Inbunden, 2020
2553 kr
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Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. …
Negotiations of Gender and Property through Legal Regimes (14th-19th Century)
Stipulating, Litigating, Mediating
Inbunden, 2021
2208 kr
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This volume explores familial wealth arrangements and gendered property from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries in Italian, German and Austrian territories (including Florence, Trento, Tyrol, and Vienna), Nordic countries, Western Pyrenees, and England. Family property as capital in the …
Justice and Society in the Highlands of Scotland
Strathspey and the Regality of Grant (c. 1690-1748)
Inbunden, 2021
1789 kr
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This book fills a significant gap in our current understanding of early modern Scottish history. It is the first systematic consideration of the workings of seigneurial courts of feudal lords in 18th century Scotland. For several hundred years, these courts were one of the main forums for justice …
Napoleonic Divorce Law in Poland (1808-1852)
Inbunden, 2022
1765 kr
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In 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte created the Duchy of Warsaw from the Polish lands that had been ceded to France by Prussia. His Civil Code was enforced in the new Duchy too and, unlike the Catholic Church, it allowed the dissolution of marriage by divorce. This book sheds new light on the application of …
Idea of Economic Constitution in Europe
Genealogy and Overview
Inbunden, 2022
2935 kr
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Behind the controversies that have marked the history of the idea of Economic Constitution emerges the highly political issue of the room for manoeuvre left to public authorities in the economic sphere. The notion thus encapsulates a fundamental tension: between democracy and rule of law, which …
Companion to Western Legal Traditions
From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2023
2448 kr
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This volume offers an extensive introduction to Western legal traditions from antiquity to the twentieth century. Drawing from a variety of scholarly writings, both in English and in translation, thirteen leading scholars present the current state of western legal history research and pave the way …
French Civil Code in the Free City of Cracow (1815–1846)
Av Andrzej Dziadzio, Mateusz Mataniak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2070 kr
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This book is a summary of the extensive research by the co-authors on the validity and application of the 1804 French Civil Code in the Free City of Cracow (1815-1846), the Polish constitutional city-state established at the Congress of Vienna. From the wealth of case-law and legal practice of the …
Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Civil Codes in the United States
Inbunden, 2024
1801 kr
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Starting in Louisiana in the early nineteenth century, this book takes the reader on a journey through the USA and the development of their civil codes. From Georgia and New York, civil codes traveled to California and Dakota Territory; in the Great Plains, they made their way to Montana, North …
Local Customs and Common Laws
Essays on the Law Governing Maritime Commerce in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Av J.D. Ford
Inbunden, 2024
2419 kr
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Lawyers in Scotland in the later sixteenth century took a disproportionate interest in the law governing maritime commerce. Some essays in this collection consider their handling of the subject in treatises they wrote. Other essays, however, show that disputes relating to maritime trade were …
Colonial Massachusetts Laws and Liberties and the English Commonwealth
State Formation, the Rule of Law, and the People’s Welfare
Inbunden, 2024
2244 kr
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On July 4, 1653, the Nominate or Barebones Parliament convened with a minority of committed radicals (Levellers and religious extremists) and a conservative majority of Cromwell’s allies. During acrimonious debates on law reform, the radicals demanded a condensed law book similar to the one adopted …
Learned and Lived Law
Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue
Inbunden, 2024
3030 kr
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This wide-ranging collection of essays reflects the manifold scholarly interests of legal historian Charles Donahue, whose former students engage here with questions related to foundational Roman law concepts, the impact of the law on women and families in medieval and early modern Europe, the …
Regula as a Rhetorical Device in Roman Law
Av Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Jan Willem Tellegen
Inbunden, 2024
1977 kr
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In this book, it is argued that twenty regulae in title D. 50.17 of Justinian’s Digest are not the legal rules that scholarly wisdom has long held them to be, but are instead rhetorical arguments. As arguments, these regulae do not comfortably fit the modern perception of Roman law as a system and …
Ideology and Private Law: Polish Experiences in the Long 20th Century
Av Anna Machnikowska, Michał Karol Gałędek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2513 kr
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This book highlights the ideological aspects influencing the modern shape of private law in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), examining Poland as a representative example given the shared historical trajectory of the 20th century across this region. In the historico-legal literature currently in …
Regulae Iuris in the Medieval and Modern Age
Essential Stability vs. Evolving Contexts
Inbunden, 2025
2153 kr
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This volume is the first anthology to address the topic of the regulae iuris, or maxims of law, from a uniform methodological point of view. It approaches the regulae iuris as a dynamic system with an ever-evolving structure. The contributors of this volume, being among the leading experts in the …
Five Centuries of Civil Procedure: The Polish Experience in a European Context (16th to 21st Centuries)
Inbunden, 2025
2137 kr
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The first codification of Polish court proceedings was made in 1523. Half a millennium later, the jurists in this volume have carefully analyzed the transformation of Polish civil procedure from then to the present day against the historical background of the development of modern European legal …
Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period
Inbunden, 2025
2003 kr
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Natural Law and Domestic Government in the Early Modern Period examines how natural law informed evolving ideas of governance from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through case studies spanning France, the Low Countries, England, Iberia, and colonial America, this volume explores how jurists, …
Observationes tumultuariae of Johan van Bleiswijk (1684–1748)
Inbunden, 2026
2513 kr
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In the Dutch Republic, courts made decisions by voting and judgments were not given reasoned motivations. Although some judges kept a record of the preceding deliberations, the only extensive collections we have had until recently from the eighteenth century are those of van Bijnkershoek and Pauw. …
Amsterdam: Sovereignty and Legal Agency of a 17th-Century Commercial City
Av Dave de Ruysscher, Janne E. Nijman
Inbunden, 2026
1753 kr
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The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.This volume examines the sovereignty and autonomy of the city of Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. Amsterdam was part of the institutional landscape of the county of Holland and the Dutch Republic, …
