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Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity / Alan Watson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812216394
  • 9781512821567
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340 21
LOC classification:
  • K280 .W37 1998eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Sources of Law in Ancient Rome -- II. Europe before the Reception: The Example of Germany and Northern France -- III. Reception and Partial Reception: Italy, France, and Scotland -- IV.English Law in the Modern Age -- V. Legal Department and Confusion of Sources -- VI. Two-Tier Law -- Notes -- Afterword to the 1998 Edition -- Index
Summary: Why is the law notoriously unclear, arcane, slow to change in the face of changing circumstances? In this sweeping comparative analysis of the lawmaking process from ancient Rome to the present day, Alan Watson argues that the answer has largely to do with the mixed ancestry of modern law, the confusion of sources-custom, legislation, scholarly writing, and judicial precedent-from which it derives.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512821567

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Sources of Law in Ancient Rome -- II. Europe before the Reception: The Example of Germany and Northern France -- III. Reception and Partial Reception: Italy, France, and Scotland -- IV.English Law in the Modern Age -- V. Legal Department and Confusion of Sources -- VI. Two-Tier Law -- Notes -- Afterword to the 1998 Edition -- Index

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Why is the law notoriously unclear, arcane, slow to change in the face of changing circumstances? In this sweeping comparative analysis of the lawmaking process from ancient Rome to the present day, Alan Watson argues that the answer has largely to do with the mixed ancestry of modern law, the confusion of sources-custom, legislation, scholarly writing, and judicial precedent-from which it derives.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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