Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Watson A., The law of property in the later Roman republic ...
Author: Giuseppe GrossoThe Law of Property in the Later Roman Republic
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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Author: Karl-Heinz ZieglerThe Law of Succession in the Later Roman Republic
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Roman Private Law Around 200 B.C.
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Around 200 BC Rome which had been the greatest force in Italy became the greatest power in the Mediterranean. The law of the time stands poised between the archaic rules of the XII Tables of 451 BC and the complex flexible system of the very late Republic. The general picture of this law and much detail can be reconstructed both from the rather scanty direct evidence and from earlier and later materials. That odd combination of sophistication and crude vigour, so charecteristic of the period, is as visible in the law as in the wars of conquest and the plays of Palutus. The author has devoted more than ten years of research to the elucidation of private law in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic and has published his conclusions in several books and articles. Here he presents the law as it was at the bebinning of that period.
Alan Watson, Law making in the later Roman republic
Author: Max KaserThe State, Law, and Religion
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820313870
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Written by one of our most respected legal historians, this book analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome. As such, it offers a major new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire before Christianity was recognized and encouraged by Constantine. At the heart of the book is the apparent paradox that Roman private law is remarkably secular even though, until the late second century B.C., the Romans were regarded (and regarded themselves) as the most religious people in the world. Adding to the paradox was the fact that the interpretation of private law, which dealt with relations between private citizens, lay in the hands of the College of Pontiffs, an advisory body of priests. Alan Watson traces the roots of the paradox--and the way in which Roman law ultimately developed--to the conflict between patricians and plebeians that occurred in the mid-fifth century B.C. When the plebeians demanded equality of all citizens before the law, the patricians prepared in response the Twelve Tables, a law code that included only matters considered appropriate for plebeians. Public law, which dealt with public officials and the governance of the state, was totally excluded form the code, thus preserving gross inequalities between the classes of Roman citizens. Religious law, deemed to be the preserve of patrician priests, was also excluded. As Watson notes, giving a monopoly of legal interpretation to the College of Pontiffs was a shrewd move to maintain patrician advantages; however, a fundamental consequence was that modes of legal reasoning appropriate for judgments in sacred law were carried over to private law, where they were often less appropriate. Such reasoning, Watson contends, persists even in modern legal systems. After sketching the tenets of Roman religion and the content of the Twelve Tables, Watson proceeds to such matters as formalism in religion and law, religion and property, and state religion versus alien religion. In his concluding chapter, he compares the law that emerged after the adoption of the Twelve Tables with the law that reportedly existed under the early Roman kings.
Watson Alan, The Law of Persons in the Later Roman Republic ...
Author: A. Arthur SchillerCritical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 1841131571
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book focused on texts and contexts is dedicated to a great contemporary Romanist, legal historian and comparative lawyer: Professor Watson.
Roman Law & Comparative Law
Author: Alan WatsonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820312614
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive description of the system of Roman law, discussing slavery, property, contracts, delicts and succession. Also examines the ways in which Roman law influenced later legal systems such as the structure of European legal systems, tort law in the French civil code, differences between contract law in France and Germany, parameters of judicial reasoning, feudal law, and the interests of governments in making and communicating law.