02309cam a2200457Ka 4500 ocn763147766 OCoLC 20170118103643.0 m o d cr un||||a|a|| 111127s2010 flu ob 000 0 eng d 9781600421068 1600421067 (OCoLC)763147766 PUCPR eng OCLCE cicg K 559 .W38 2010 Watson, Alan, 1933- Comparative law : law, reality and society / by Alan Watson. 3rd ed. Lake Mary, FL : Vandeplas Pub., 2010. x, 322 pages ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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? Print version record. Comparative law. Civil law Reception History. Common law Reception History. Roman law Reception History. Civil law Reception. Common law Reception. Comparative law. Roman law Reception. History. Print version: Watson, Alan, 1933- Comparative law. 3rd ed. Lake Mary, FL : Vandeplas Pub., �2010 (OCoLC)643102429 Google http://books.google.com/books?id=bFpQAQAAIAAJ lcc 6 256612 256612 0 0 lcc 0 0 7 7 4 2017-01-18 Vandeplas Publishing 53.90 0 K 559 .W38 2010 70000000902229 2023-10-12 00:00:00 2017-01-18 39