Regulae Iuris: From Juristic Rules to Legal Maxims

217 Pages·1966·17.582 MB·English

by  Peter G. Stein

1REGUL·AE
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FROM JURISTIC RULES
TO LEGAL MAXIMS
PETER~TEIN
PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE
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PREFACE
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This book was written in Aberdeen and has gone through the
press while I have been teaching at the University of Virginia
Law School. Professor David Daube read the first six chapters
in draft and made many valuable criticisms of their substance.
My wife read the whole1 work and purged some,, at least,
of its defects of form. Mr. G. P. Edwards gave me useful advice
o~ ancient grammar. The publi~hei:s have accepted cheerfully
the difficulties caused by my absence from Scotland. To all of
them I am sincerely grateful.
Peter Stein
Charlottesville, Virginia, April, 1966
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JANET
CONTENTS ,
I
Declared law and undeclared law p.3
II
Jurist-law and the scientific revolution p.26
III
The introduction of regulae iuris p.49
IV
The classical Books of Rules p.74
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V
The classical jurists' ideas of regulae iuris p.90
VI
From juristic rules to legislative rules p. z 09
VII
Roman rules in barbarian dress p. z 24
VIII
The glossators' ideas of regulae i-µris p.z3z
Regulae and Maxims p.153
Indexes p. z8 z
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A~BREVIA TI ONS
B .I.D. R. Bulletino dell' I stituto di diritto romano,
Rome.
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C. ustlnian's Code.
1;
Calasso, Medio Evo F. Calasso, Medio Evo del diritto, 1954.
, CaprioI i, Regula S. Caprio Ii, 'Tre . capitoli intomo alla
nozione di regula iuris nel pensiero <lei·
glossatori', Annali ef.i S toria del diritto, 5-6,
I
1961-2, 221-374. ,.: .
Coll. Collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum,
in F./.R.A., v.2.
C. Th. Theodosian Code.
D. Justinian's Digest.
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'zur
Daube, Palingenesie D. Daube, Palingenesie einiger
Klassikerfragmente', Z.S.S.,76, 1959, 149-
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Gaius Gaius' Institutes, in F.J.R.A., v.2.
Huvelin, Furtum P. Huvelin, Etudes sur l~furtum Jans le tres
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1, I I
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X ABBREVIATIONS·
L.Q.R. Law Quarterly Review, London.
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Nov. Justinian's Novels.
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Z.S.S. Zeitschrifi der Savigny-Stifiungfur Rechts-
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