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Author | : Alan Watson |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0820341150 |
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In Ancient Law and Modern Understanding Alan Watson proposes that ancient law is relevant and important for understanding history, theology, sociology, and literature. "Law, though technical," he writes, "is not remote from scholarship on other matters, and law is a central element in society." From Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, Watson examines law's influence. Without a sensitivity to technical legal language, scholars of literature or history miss much: the use of puns in Plautus, Sulla's claim that Julius Caesar was descended from a slave, the relationship between the Synoptic Gospels. Legal history is an essential tool for understanding society, Watson argues, but it must be applied with knowledge of how law moves from one society to the next, legal reliance on authority, juristic concern with apparent trivia, and the impact on legal growth.
Author | : Henry Sumner Maine |
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Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Author | : John Sassoon |
Publisher | : Intellect (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Comparative law |
ISBN | : 9781841501239 |
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John Sassoon's study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an individual killed. Some of the surviving law codes are originals, others near-contemporary copies. Together they preserve a partial but vivid picture of life in the early cites. This occupies more than half the book. Comparison of ancient with modern principles occupies the remainder and is bound to be controversial; but it is important as well as fascinating. The first act of writing laws diminished the discretion of the judges and foretold a limit on individual justice. Some political principles such as uniformity of treatment or individual freedom have, when carried to extremes, produced crises in modern legal systems world wide. But it is tempting but wrong to blame the judges or the lawyers for doing what society require of them.
Author | : Henry Sumner Maine |
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Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Law |
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In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE |
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Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Comparative law |
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Author | : Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1870 |
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Author | : Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108044948 |
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This hugely influential book of 1861 remains a landmark work in the intellectual history of jurisprudence.
Author | : Henry James Sumner Maine |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-12-08 |
Genre | : Law |
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Ancient Law is a legal treatise by Henry James Sumner Maine. It dives into the development of ancient Roman laws, bridging the ancient to the modern in a logical manner.
Author | : H. S. Maine (Sir) |
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Release | : 1931 |
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