THE CREATION OF THE LUS COMMUNE by John W. Cairns (Editor), Paul du Plessis (Editor), K. Bezemer ( 9780748638970 )

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Title:

THE CREATION OF THE LUS COMMUNE
FROM CASUS TO REGULA

By:

John W. Cairns (Editor), Paul du Plessis (Editor), K. Bezemer

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Publisher:

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 January, 2010

Series:

Edinburgh Studies in Law

Pages:

320

Description:

This book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe.

Synopsis:

This book discusses in detail how medieval scholars reacted to the casuistic discussions in the inherited Roman texts, particularly the Digest of Justinian. It shows how they developed medieval Roman law into a system of rules that formed a universal common law for Western Europe. Because there has been little research published in English beyond grand narratives on the history of law in Europe, this book fills an important gap in the literature. With a focus on how the medieval Roman lawyers systematised the Roman sources through detailed discussions of specific areas of law, it considers: *the sources of medieval law and how to access them *the development from cases to rules *medieval lawyers' strategies for citing each other and their significance *growth of a conceptual approach to the study of law. With contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this book therefore fills an important gap in the literature.

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