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History of the Roman-Dutch Law (Hardcover)
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History of the Roman-Dutch Law (Hardcover)
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AN IMPORTANT BRANCH OF EUROPEAN CIVIL LAW. Origianlly published:
Grahamstown, Cape Colony: African Book Co., 1908. iv (new
introduction), xv, 791 pp. With a New Introduction by Michael
Hoeflich, John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law, University
of Kansas School of Law. Roman-Dutch law is a hybrid of medieval
Dutch law, mainly Germanic in origin, and Roman law as defined by
the Corpus Juris Civilis and its later reception. It was developed
in Holland during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Bynkershoek, Damhouder, Grotius and other Roman-Dutch
jurists had a profound influence on the development of European
civil law and were the primary source of civil-law study in
America. The Dutch brought it to their colonies, most notably South
Africa and Indonesia, and it became the basis of their
post-colonial legal systems. This engagingly written history offers
a thorough analysis of Roman-Dutch jurisprudence and its
intellectual background. Wessels devotes a great deal of attention
to its literature, and he analyzes several treatises at length.
Valuable as an introduction to one of the most important legal
systems in history, it is equally useful as a reference.
"On the whole, the work is deserving of high praise, both for its
learning and its literary quality. It will prove a most
illuminating adjunct to the standard authorities on this system of
law." --JAMES MACKINTOSH, Juridical Review 20 (1908-1909) 370.
JOHANNES WILHELMUS WESSELS 1862-1936] was a judge of the Transvaal
Supreme Court. His works include The Status of the Uitlander
(1894), Codification of Law in South Africa (1927) and The Law of
Contract in South Africa (1937).
MICHAEL H. HOEFLICH is the John H. & John M. Kane Professor of
Law at the University of Kansas School of Law. He is the author of
numerous books including Roman and Civil Law and the Development of
Anglo-American Jurisprudence (1997), Legal Publishing in Antebellum
America (2010), Sources of the History of the American Law of
Lawyering (2007) and The Law in Postcards and Ephemera 1890-1962
(2012), the latter two published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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