Ancient Law
Author | : Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dennis P. Kehoe |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472130439 |
An engaging look at how ancient Greeks and Romans crafted laws that fit--and, in turn, changed--their worlds
Author | : Raymond Westbrook |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1235 |
Release | : 2003-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 904740209X |
A comprehensive survey of the Law of the Ancient Near East by a team of specialist scholars, this volume allows non-specialists access to the world's earliest known legal systems.
Author | : David Phillips |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2013-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472035916 |
A topic fundamental to understanding the ancient world
Author | : Henry Sumner Maine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Comparative law |
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Author | : Russ VerSteeg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Law in the Ancient World examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for a wide perspective of law and the procedural features of these ancient legal systems. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of ancient laws, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both procedure and substance. The book is comprised of four units: I. Early Mesopotamian Law; II. Law in Ancient Egypt; III. Law in Classical Athens; and IV. Roman Law. Each unit has three chapters, and the first chapter in each unit begins with an overview which provides essential historial background. Next, each initial chapter considers the role of law in society, exploring law in the abstract, the theoretical bases of justice. The middle chapters in each unit trace the development of the ancient judicial systems, distinguishing the various types of judges, courts, and procedures that were employed to make justice available to both citizens and foreigners. The third chapter in each unit reconstructs the substantive laws, including sections detailing Personal Status, Property, Family Law, Inheritance & Succession, Torts, Criminal Law, and Contracts & Commercial Law. A variety of sources, such as early law collections, land records, wills, sales documents, court chronicles, works of ancient literature, accounts of ancient trials, and great codes such as Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis illustrate the sophisticated, often subtle, and complex nature of law in the ancient world.
Author | : Sir Henry James Sumner MAINE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Comparative law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Sassoon |
Publisher | : Intellect (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Comparative law |
ISBN | : 9781841501239 |
John Sassoon's study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an individual killed. Some of the surviving law codes are originals, others near-contemporary copies. Together they preserve a partial but vivid picture of life in the early cites. This occupies more than half the book. Comparison of ancient with modern principles occupies the remainder and is bound to be controversial; but it is important as well as fascinating. The first act of writing laws diminished the discretion of the judges and foretold a limit on individual justice. Some political principles such as uniformity of treatment or individual freedom have, when carried to extremes, produced crises in modern legal systems world wide. But it is tempting but wrong to blame the judges or the lawyers for doing what society require of them.
Author | : David Johnston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 1999-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139425803 |
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. The book discusses three main areas of Roman law and life: the family and inheritance; property and the use of land; commercial transactions and the management of businesses. It also deals with the question of litigation and how readily the Roman citizen could assert his or her legal rights in practice. In addition it provides an introduction to using the main sources of Roman law. The book ends with an epilogue discussing the role of Roman law in medieval and modern Europe, a bibliographical essay, and a glossary of legal terms. The book involves the minimum of legal technicality and is intended to be accessible to students and teachers of Roman history as well as interested general readers.
Author | : Elisabeth Meier Tetlow |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2004-12-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826416285 |
Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men.