508 Pages
by
Routledge
508 Pages
by
Routledge
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The civil law systems of continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, including Japan, share a common legal heritage derived from Roman law. However, it is an inheritance which has been modified and adapted over the centuries as a result of contact with Germanic legal concepts, the work of jurists in the mediaeval universities, the growth of the canon law of the western Church,... Read more
Contents: Sources and Influences: The Roman Republic; The principate; The dominate; The dark ages; The rebirth of civil law; Humanism and the age of reason; Codification; An historical overview of modern civil law. Private Law: The law of persons; Family property and succession; The law of property; The law of obligations; The law of actions. Public Law: The concept and function of the state; The law of civil procedure; Criminal justice; Administrative justice; The legal profession. Conclusion: the future of civil law; Contents; Index.
Biography
Thomas Glyn Watkin
’The author is to be commended for his clarity of style...A book to be recommended.’ Law and Justice
