This book sketches the history of Roman Private Law from the Twelve Tables to modern times, and sets out the elements of the system. It does not attempt to summarize the whole law, but explains and evaluates its most characteristic and influential features.
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Barry Nicholas is at University of Oxford and sometime Principal of Brasenose College.
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When I was a student at Oxford I specialised in Roman law. The tutorial system was very good at providing education in detail but bad at giving the wider picture. I survived on Nicholas to keep my sanity. Other writers deal with the subject in greater depth (von Lubtow, Daube, Jolovicz, Schulz etc) but he does a unique job, so far as I am aware, in producing a comprehensible overall map. I reccomend it highly to anyone interested in Roman law.
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A great introduction to Roman law,
This review is from: An Introduction to Roman Law (Clarendon Law Series) (Paperback)
A read this book as a student, and I found it an easy guide to the world of Roman law. Though today's legal systems share a common heritage from Roman law, the latter is still an alien system for lawyers today. It is thus not an easy task to present this exotic legal system and society as easy as Nicholas does in this book.
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ACCORDING to tradition Rome was founded in 753 B.C.. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bonitary owner, fidei action, ordinary vindicatio, iure cessio, semel heres, bonorum possessor, legitima portio, ius pentium, heres necessarius, bonorum possessio, bona fide possessor, culpa levis, familiae emptor, damnum iniuria datum, semper heres, innominate contracts, temporis praescriptio, res corporalis, res mancipi, suus heres, possessory interdict, actio utilis, modern civil law, nova species, servient land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twelve Tables, Corpus Iuris, Institutes of Gaius, Urban Praetor, French Civil Code, Peregrine Praetor, Roman Empire, Junian Latin, Lucius Titius, Romana Visigothorum, Antoninus Pius, German Civil Code, Justinian's Institutes, Septimius Severus, Daily Life, Penguin Books, Urban Edict, Western Empire New!
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ACCORDING to tradition Rome was founded in 753 B.C.. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bonitary owner, fidei action, ordinary vindicatio, iure cessio, semel heres, bonorum possessor, legitima portio, ius pentium, heres necessarius, bonorum possessio, bona fide possessor, culpa levis, familiae emptor, damnum iniuria datum, semper heres, innominate contracts, temporis praescriptio, res corporalis, res mancipi, suus heres, possessory interdict, actio utilis, modern civil law, nova species, servient land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Twelve Tables, Corpus Iuris, Institutes of Gaius, Urban Praetor, French Civil Code, Peregrine Praetor, Roman Empire, Junian Latin, Lucius Titius, Romana Visigothorum, Antoninus Pius, German Civil Code, Justinian's Institutes, Septimius Severus, Daily Life, Penguin Books, Urban Edict, Western Empire New!
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