A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental Legal History

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Little, Brown,, 1912 - Počet stran: 754
 

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Strana 757 - This preservation photocopy was made and hand bound at BookLab, Inc. in compliance with copyright law. The paper, Weyerhaeuser Cougar Opaque Natural, meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
Strana 91 - Vestram flagitamus clementiam, ut sicut hactenus romana lex viguit absque universis procellis et pro nullius persona hominis reminiscitur esse corrupta, ita nunc suum robur propriumque vigorem obtineat.
Strana 6 - But internally they were developing what was to be a system of constitutional and governmental law, which would endow the overseer (episcopus) of every congregation with manifold powers. Also they were developing a system of punitive law, for the offender might be excluded from all participation in religious rites, if not from worldly intercourse with the faithful*. Moreover, these various communities were becoming united by bonds that were too close to be federal. In particular, that one of them...
Strana xi - I might instance in other professions the obligation men lie under of applying themselves to certain parts of History; and I can hardly forbear doing it in that of the Law, — in its nature the noblest and most beneficial to mankind, in its abuse and debasement the most sordid and the most pernicious.
Strana xvii - Committee, on behalf of our profession, acknowledges to them a special debt for their cordial services on behalf of legal science, and commends them to the readers of these volumes with the reminder that without their labors this Series would have been a fruitless dream. So the Committee, satisfied with the privilege of having introduced these authors and their translators to the public, retires from the scene, bespeaking for the Series the interest of lawyers and historians alike. THE EDITORIAL...
Strana xiii - ALL history," said the lamented master Maitland, in a memorable epigram, "is but a seamless web; and he who endeavors to tell but a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears the fabric." This seamless web of our own legal history unites us inseparably to the history of Western and Southern Europe. Our main interest must naturally center on deciphering the pattern which lies directly before us, — that of the Anglo-American law. But in tracing the warp and woof of its structure we are brought...
Strana xiv - Scientific Congress; the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology; the Civic Federation Conference on Uniform Legislation; the International Congress of History; the libraries' accessions in foreign law, — the work of these and other movements touches at various points the bodies of Continental law. Such activities serve to remind us constantly that we have in English no histories of Continental law. To pay any attention at all to Continental law means that its history must be more or...
Strana xi - There will be none such any more, till, in some better age, true ambition, or the love of fame, prevails over avarice ; and till men find leisure and encouragement to prepare themselves for the exercise of this profession by climbing up to the vantage ground...
Strana 6 - Its eyes were turned law' backwards to the departed great. The constitutions of the emperors now appeared as the only active source of law. They were a disordered mass, to be collected rather than digested. Collections of them were being unofficially made : the Codex Gregorianus, the Codex Hermogenianus. These have perished ; they were made, some say, in the Orient5.
Strana 9 - Though there are notable variations, it is in part a modernized edition of the Salica, showing the influence of the clergy and of Roman law. On the other hand, there seems little doubt that the core of the Lex Burgundionum was issued by King Gundobad (474-516) in the last years of the fifth century.3 Burgundians and West Goths were scattered among Roman provincials.

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