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University of Georgia Press, Published 1991. Hardcover, xx, 328 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition (with full number line). Chronology prepared by Matthew Frank.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Brown cloth-covered boards, silver lettering on spine; mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Red illustrated dust jacket with title on a cream carved-stone tablet design; mild shelf and edge wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Two-part study by Alan Watson (1933-2018), the Scottish-born legal historian who coined the term "legal transplants." Part I, a revised and enlarged version of his 1970 The Law of the Ancient Romans, describes the Roman legal system: the Twelve Tables, sources of law, family law, slavery, property, contracts, delicts, succession and Justinian's codification. Part II argues that comparative law must be approached historically, and traces Roman law through later Western systems, including Blackstone's Commentaries, delict in the French Code Civil, feudal law and the culture of judges. Includes a chronology of Western legal history from 753 B.C. to 1946 and appendixes reproducing the schemes of Hale's Analysis, Blackstone's Analysis and Gothofredus. Written while Watson was Ernest P. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations; Part I, Roman Law: Law and the Roman Mind; The Laws of the Kings and the Twelve Tables; The Sources of Law; Family Law; Slavery; Property; Contracts; Delicts; Succession; Postclassical Law and Justinian; The Subsequent History of Roman Law; Part II, Comparative Law: Comparative Law; Roman Law and Comparative Law: Sources of Law; Roman Law and Comparative Law: Slavery, Possession; Roman Law and Comparative Law: The Emergence of Contracts; Roman Law and English Law; The Impact of Justinian's Institutes on Academic Treatises: The Civil Law; The Impact of Justinian's Institutes on Academic Treatises: Blackstone's Commentaries; The Law of Delict and Quasi Delict in the French Code Civil; Laesio Enormis; Juristic Classification and Substantive Law; The Legacy of Justinianian Natural Law; The Culture of Judges; Feudal Law and the Legal Tradition; Two Patterns of Legal Development; Communication and the Law; Appendixes (Hale's Analysis; Blackstone's Tabulation; Gothofredus's Tabulation); Notes; Index.