Comparative, Non-US Legal Systems, Comparative Politics, Law, Government, Comparative Study 

"A collection of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. Chapters provide new insight on areas including translation and interpretation, actor and defendant in negatoria servitutis, oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law, basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy, bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing, legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies, and legal change and Scots private law. Of interest to scholars and students of Roman law, ancient Jewish and Chinese law, legal history, and comparative law. Cairns specializes in the history of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh. Robinson specializes in Roman administrative and criminal law at Glasgow University. Distributed by ISBS. c. Book News Inc." - Voila 

Content:

Roman Law -- Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? / Hans Ankum -- Solutio and Traditio / J L Barton -- Actor and Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis / L Capogrossi Colognesi -- Some Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists' Tools / Giuliano Crifo -- D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited / Robert Feenstra -- Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny's Panegyricus / Jane F. Gardner -- Translation and Interpretation / William M. Gordon -- The Case of the Deliberate Wine Spill / Herbert Hausmaninger -- De Iurisprudentia / Neil Maccormick -- Pigs, Boars and Livestock under the Lex Aquilia / Grant McLeod -- "Galba Negabat" / A D Manfredini -- Partes Iuris / Theo Mayer-Maly -- "Unus Testis Nullus Testis" / Antonino Metro -- Unpardonable Crimes: Fourth Century Attitudes / O F Robinson -- The Praetor Hoist with his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 / Alan Rodger -- Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations / Robin Seager -- Other Ancient Laws -- Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: D'varim Haniknim Ba'amira and Dotis Dictio / Ranon Katzoff -- Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of Homicide / Geoffrey Maccormack -- The Septuagint as Nomos: How the Torah became a "Civic Law" for the Jews of Egypt / Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski -- Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy / Reuven Yaron -- Transplants, Receptions and Comparisons. 

Includes index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Categorized by publisher, then editor, then date.