Research Catalog

Title

Soviet law and Western legal systems; a manual for comparison.

Author

Hazard, John N. (John Newbold), 1909-

Publication

New York, Columbia University, Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, 1970.

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Additional Authors

Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law.

Description

ii l., 150 p.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Comparative law
• Law > Soviet Union

Note

• Keyed to the 1969 ed. of The Soviet legal system; contemporary documentation and historical commentary, by J. N. Hazard, I. Shapiro and P. B. Maggs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. The Soviet state and its citizens -- The claim of legality -- Preparing communist self-administration -- Soviet federalism -- Sources and hierarchy of law -- The instruments of public order -- Civil rights and socialism -- Procedural due process of law -- Due process for civil parties -- Criminal law in the preservation of public order -- Part II. Administering Soviet socialism -- What is administered? -- Use of land --The directing and planning agencies -- The operating agencies -- Law as an instrument of administrative order -- The cooperatives as supplementary agencies -- Labor relations and public enterprise -- Encouragement of inspiration -- Part III. Private legal rights and obligations of citizens -- Personal property rights and their scope -- Inheritance and socialism -- Private contracts -- Torts and social insurance -- Marriage and divorce.

LCCN

^^^75301612^//r904

OCLC

3149750

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Harvard Library