History of Private Law in Scotland: Volume 2: Obligations

Zusatztext ... there is an immense amount of interest, importance and value in these essays. They have been most thoroughly researched and make substantial additions to our understanding of the themes. Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Reid is Professor of Law at Edinburgh UniversityReinhard Zimmermann is Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Law in the University of Regensburg. Klappentext Scotland has a special claim for the attention of comparative lawyers, of legal historians, and of those who seek to identify a common core in European private law or to develop a new jus commune. For Scotland stands at the inter-section of the two great traditions of European law - of the law of Rome, received and developed in Continental Europe, and of the law which originated in England but was exported throughout the British Empire. In Scotland, uniquely inEurope, there is to be found a fusion of the civil law and the common law. Zusammenfassung 'A History of Private Law in Scotland: Obligations' is a detailed and systematic study in the field of private law. The book's method is to take key topics from the law of obligations and the law of property and to trace their development from earliest times to the present day.

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• Authors: Kenneth Reid, Kenneth (Professor of Law Reid, Kenneth G. C. Zimmerman Reid, Kenneth G.c. Zimmerman Reid, Kenneth Zimmerman Reid
• Assisted by: Kenneth Reid (Editor), Reid Kenneth (Editor), Reinhard Zimmermann (Editor), Zimmermann Reinhard (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.2001
• EAN: 9780198299288
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829928-8
• No. of pages: 826
• Series: A History of Private Law in Scotland
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Scotland, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Common, comparative law, Common Law, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Systems of law: common law, Roman law, Systems of law: Roman law