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The Roman law of trusts / David Johnston.
- Title
- The Roman law of trusts / David Johnston.
- Author
- Johnston, David, 1961-
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
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- Description
- xiii, 306 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- A history of Roman law and how it affected society, focusing on the legal evolution of the "fideicommissum", a device similar to a "trust" in common law. As part of Roman inheritance law, this affected strategies of succession open to testators and reveals ambitions and legislative concerns.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [289]-291.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0198252161 :
- LCCN
- ^^^88019709^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library