Watson, Alan,  1933- <br/><br/>
Comparative law :  law, reality and society / 
by Alan Watson. 
 - 3rd ed. 
 - Lake Mary, FL :  Vandeplas Pub.,  2010. 
 - x, 322 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Law in books, law and reality: a comparative law perspective -- Law out of context -- Moses and the Ten Commandments -- Two gospel vignettes: Jesus and the Samaritan woman; Jesus and the adulteress -- Private law, religion, and international law in early Rome -- Artificiality, reality and Roman contract law -- Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis: oddities of legal development; and human civilization -- Justinian's natural law and its Spanish legacy -- The failure of Scottish legal education in the 17th century, and the American Civil War -- Lord Mansfield: judicial integrity or its lack; Somerset's case -- Chancellor Kent's use of foreign law -- Foreign legal thinking -- The culture of judges -- The law of delict and quasi delict in the French code civil -- The justice of the U.S. constitution -- Epilogue: Julius Caesar: descendant of a slave? 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Comparative law.<br/>Civil law--Reception--History.<br/>Common law--Reception--History.<br/>Roman law--Reception--History.<br/>Civil law--Reception.<br/>Common law--Reception.<br/>Comparative law.<br/>Roman law--Reception.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K 559  / .W38 2010