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Authors: R. C. van Caenegem, R. C. Caenegem, D. E. Johnston
ISBN-13: 9780521427456, ISBN-10: 0521427452
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 1992
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: R. C. van Caenegem

Book Synopsis

This book provides an introduction to the rise and development of present-day private law.

	Preface to the English-language edition
1	The origins of contemporary private law, 1789-1807	1
	The Code civil of 1804: an end and a new beginning	1
	The Code civil in Europe	2
	Common law and reception	2
	The compilation and promulgation of the Code civil of 1804	4
	The Code civil: ancient and modern	6
	The spirit of the Code civil	7
	Courts and procedure	10
	The merits of codification	11
	Opposition to codification	13
	Bibliography	15
2	Antecedents: the early Middle Ages, c. 500-c. 1100	16
	The character of the period	16
	Roman law	17
	The Germanic national laws	18
	Feudal law	20
	Legislation: general points	20
	Legislation: the capitularies	21
	Jurisprudence	24
	The courts and procedure	25
	Evaluation	26
	Bibliography	28
3	Europe and Roman-Germanic law, c. 1100-c. 1750	30
	Character of the period	30
	Before and after 1500: continuity	31
	The development of the law: outline	33
	Customary law	35
	The European ius commune	45
	Legislation	85
	Case law	95
	The courts and procedure	99
	Factors	107
	Evaluation	108
	Bibliography	109
4	Enlightenment, natural law and the modern codes: from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries	115
	Characteristics	115
	The Enlightenment	115
	Natural law	117
	The codes of the Enlightenment	122
	Factors	125
	The courts and procedure	128
	English law in the Enlightenment	134
	Evaluation of the law of reason	139
	The law of reason and the Historical School	142
	Bibliography	144
5	The nineteenth century: the interpretation of the Code civil and the struggle for the law	147
	France	147
	Belgium and the Netherlands	151
	Germany	155
	Conservative England	159
	Innovation in England	162
	Bibliography	165
6	Statute, case law and scholarship	170
	The question	170
	Advantages and disadvantages	170
	Legislators, judges and professors: competition	173
	Law and the Volksgeist	177
7	Factors	180
	Introduction	180
	Change in law	181
	Ideas and political power	183
	Social groups and private law	184
	The intellectual and moral climate	187
	Final considerations	196
	General bibliography	198
	Index	206

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