Research Catalog

Title

Legal transplants : an approach to comparative law / Alan Watson.

Author

Watson, Alan.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

xvi, 121 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Comparative law
• Roman law > Reception
• Common law > Reception
• Civil law > Reception

Note

• Originally published: Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press, 1974. With new afterword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-121).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Comparative Law as an Academic Discipline -- 2. The Perils of Comparative Law -- 3. The Virtues of Comparative Law -- 4. Introduction to Legal Transplants -- 5. Romans and Roman Law in Roman Egypt -- 6. Roman Systematics in Scotland -- 7. The Reception of Roman Law in Scotland -- 8. Meaning and Authority -- 9. Lo Codi -- 10. The Early Law of the Massachusetts Bay Colony -- 11. English Law in New Zealand -- 12. Roman Law in the Late Republic -- 13. Lex Aquilia : Reception and Non-Reception -- 14. Transfer of Ownership and Risk in Sale -- 15. Authority Again -- 16. Some General Reflections -- 17. Comparative Law and Legal History -- Afterword

ISBN

082031532X (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^92042139^

OCLC

• 27071590
• SCSB-9976070

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library