Comparative Law and Antiquity

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Until recently legal scholars have not examined the antecedents of comparative law in ancient legal systems. The same applies to the scholarship of comparative law using Román law as the basis for comparison. The volume thoroughly surveys the extent to which ancient legal concepts are reflected in modern legal thinking. A separate chapter is devoted to the concept of contract in Greek philosophy and Román jurisprudence. It traces the links between the ancient idea of contract and the concept of contract in modern legal systems. The book examines the extent and the limits to the application of concepts and terminology of Román law to the analysis of other legal systems of antiquity. However, the author believes that a knowledge of non-Román legal institutions is essential to the understanding of Román law. A separate chapter is devoted to international economic and political relations and their impact on the legal systems of the ancient Mediterranean world. The mutual influence of... Tovább

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Until recently legal scholars have not examined the antecedents of comparative law in ancient legal systems. The same applies to the scholarship of comparative law using Román law as the basis for comparison. The volume thoroughly surveys the extent to which ancient legal concepts are reflected in modern legal thinking. A separate chapter is devoted to the concept of contract in Greek philosophy and Román jurisprudence. It traces the links between the ancient idea of contract and the concept of contract in modern legal systems. The book examines the extent and the limits to the application of concepts and terminology of Román law to the analysis of other legal systems of antiquity. However, the author believes that a knowledge of non-Román legal institutions is essential to the understanding of Román law. A separate chapter is devoted to international economic and political relations and their impact on the legal systems of the ancient Mediterranean world. The mutual influence of different institutions of law is traceable to those surprisingly intensive contacts in that geographical region. The elements of priváté international law alsó emerged in the antiquity. However, a priváté international law in the modern sense of the word, could not develop because of the specific structure of the Impérium Romanum. A number of legal institutions appear which may be regarded as the antecedents of modern commercial law. The links in European jurisprudence between comparative law and ancient legal systems are furthermore thoroughly analyzed. The author gives an overview of the most important schools of thought dealing with the comparative analysis of ancient legal systems. The comparative trends within Greek and Román jurisprudence are alsó exhaustively surveyed. Vissza