Author: T. C. Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digesta
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Justinian's Digest (Book 20)
Author: T. C. Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digesta
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digesta
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Digest of Justinian, Volume 3
Author: Alan Watson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law. Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson. Links to the three other volumes in the set: Volume 1 [Books 1-15]Volume 2 [Books 16-29]Volume 4 [Books 41-50]
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law. Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson. Links to the three other volumes in the set: Volume 1 [Books 1-15]Volume 2 [Books 16-29]Volume 4 [Books 41-50]
The Digest of Justinian
Author: Alan Watson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812220360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The most famous and influential collection of legal materials in world history, now available in a four-volume English-language paperback edition.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812220360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The most famous and influential collection of legal materials in world history, now available in a four-volume English-language paperback edition.
The History of Law in Europe
Author: Bart Wauters
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786430762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1786430762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Justinian's Institutes
Author: Justinian I (Emperor of the East)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801494000
Category : History
Languages : la
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801494000
Category : History
Languages : la
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Codex of Justinian
Author: Bruce W. Frier
Publisher:
ISBN: 0521196825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3364
Book Description
The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0521196825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3364
Book Description
The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.
Justinian's Digest
Author: Tony Honoré
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199593302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book collects Honoré's groundbreaking work on the composition of Justinian's Digest, among the most important texts in Roman Law. It reconstructs the methodology of the Digest's composition, and examines the broader issues raised by the Digest's creation - how it was conceived by its compilers, its purpose, and its impact.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199593302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book collects Honoré's groundbreaking work on the composition of Justinian's Digest, among the most important texts in Roman Law. It reconstructs the methodology of the Digest's composition, and examines the broader issues raised by the Digest's creation - how it was conceived by its compilers, its purpose, and its impact.
A Text-book of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian
Author: William Warwick Buckland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roman law
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
The Early Christian Book (CUA Studies in Early Christianity)
Author: William E. Klingshirn
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Written by experts in the field, the essays in this volume examine the early Christian book from a wide range of disciplines: religion, art history, history, Near Eastern studies, and classics.
Beggar Thy Neighbor
Author: Charles R. Geisst
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury, have been found in almost all societies since antiquity. Whether loans were made in kind or in cash, creditors often were accused of beggar-thy-neighbor exploitation when their lending terms put borrowers at risk of ruin. While the concept of usury reflects transcendent notions of fairness, its definition has varied over time and place: Roman law distinguished between simple and compound interest, the medieval church banned interest altogether, and even Adam Smith favored a ceiling on interest. But in spite of these limits, the advantages and temptations of lending prompted financial innovations from margin investing and adjustable-rate mortgages to credit cards and microlending. In Beggar Thy Neighbor, financial historian Charles R. Geisst tracks the changing perceptions of usury and debt from the time of Cicero to the most recent financial crises. This comprehensive economic history looks at humanity's attempts to curb the abuse of debt while reaping the benefits of credit. Beggar Thy Neighbor examines the major debt revolutions of the past, demonstrating that extensive leverage and debt were behind most financial market crashes from the Renaissance to the present day. Geisst argues that usury prohibitions, as part of the natural law tradition in Western and Islamic societies, continue to play a key role in banking regulation despite modern advances in finance. From the Roman Empire to the recent Dodd-Frank financial reforms, usury ceilings still occupy a central place in notions of free markets and economic justice.