Author: Harold J. Berman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674020856
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main features of these systems of law, including the canon law of the church, the royal law of the major kingdoms, the urban law of the newly emerging cities, feudal law, manorial law, and mercantile law. In the coexistence and competition of these systems he finds an important source of the Western belief in the supremacy of law. Written simply and dramatically, carrying a wealth of detail for the scholar but also a fascinating story for the layman, the book grapples with wideranging questions of our heritage and our future. One of its main themes is the interaction between the Western belief in legal evolution and the periodic outbreak of apocalyptic revolutionary upheavals. Berman challenges conventional nationalist approaches to legal history, which have neglected the common foundations of all Western legal systems. He also questions conventional social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the origin of modem Western legal systems and has therefore misjudged the nature of the crisis of the legal tradition in the twentieth century.
Councils & Synods
Author: Dorothy Whitelock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198223948
Category : Councils and synods
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198223948
Category : Councils and synods
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Law and Revolution, the Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
Author: Harold J. Berman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674020856
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main features of these systems of law, including the canon law of the church, the royal law of the major kingdoms, the urban law of the newly emerging cities, feudal law, manorial law, and mercantile law. In the coexistence and competition of these systems he finds an important source of the Western belief in the supremacy of law. Written simply and dramatically, carrying a wealth of detail for the scholar but also a fascinating story for the layman, the book grapples with wideranging questions of our heritage and our future. One of its main themes is the interaction between the Western belief in legal evolution and the periodic outbreak of apocalyptic revolutionary upheavals. Berman challenges conventional nationalist approaches to legal history, which have neglected the common foundations of all Western legal systems. He also questions conventional social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the origin of modem Western legal systems and has therefore misjudged the nature of the crisis of the legal tradition in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674020856
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main features of these systems of law, including the canon law of the church, the royal law of the major kingdoms, the urban law of the newly emerging cities, feudal law, manorial law, and mercantile law. In the coexistence and competition of these systems he finds an important source of the Western belief in the supremacy of law. Written simply and dramatically, carrying a wealth of detail for the scholar but also a fascinating story for the layman, the book grapples with wideranging questions of our heritage and our future. One of its main themes is the interaction between the Western belief in legal evolution and the periodic outbreak of apocalyptic revolutionary upheavals. Berman challenges conventional nationalist approaches to legal history, which have neglected the common foundations of all Western legal systems. He also questions conventional social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the origin of modem Western legal systems and has therefore misjudged the nature of the crisis of the legal tradition in the twentieth century.
The ecclesiastical statutes at large, extr. and arranged by J.T. Law
Author: James Thomas Law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Ecclesiastical Statutes at Large, Extracted from the Great Body of the Statute Law, and Arranged Under Separate Heads
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Ecclesiastical Law and Rules of Evidence
Author: William J. Henry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecclesiastical law
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecclesiastical law
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Government Gazette
Author: New South Wales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Courts, the Church and the Constitution
Author: Alan Rodger
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748637559
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Commissioned by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, this book is derived from the inaugural Jean Clark Lectures, hosted by the University of Aberdeen in 2007. Across three lectures, the Rt Hon. The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry discusses and analyses the legal and constitutional issues arising from the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 when the majority of leading ministers left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church. Lord Rodger takes a fresh look at the series of cases in the Court of Session and the House of Lords between 1837 and 1843 which led to the Disruption, showing how they gave rise to the most important constitutional crisis and challenge to the Courts' authority that had occurred since the 1707 Union."e;
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748637559
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Commissioned by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, this book is derived from the inaugural Jean Clark Lectures, hosted by the University of Aberdeen in 2007. Across three lectures, the Rt Hon. The Lord Rodger of Earlsferry discusses and analyses the legal and constitutional issues arising from the Disruption of the Church of Scotland in 1843 when the majority of leading ministers left the Church of Scotland to set up the Free Church. Lord Rodger takes a fresh look at the series of cases in the Court of Session and the House of Lords between 1837 and 1843 which led to the Disruption, showing how they gave rise to the most important constitutional crisis and challenge to the Courts' authority that had occurred since the 1707 Union."e;
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
General Index to Bills
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description