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The law of presumptions : essays in comparative legal history /
Hauptbeschreibung The law of presumptions has never been popular among commentators. It has attracted few scholars, and most of the few who have ventured into the subject have come away as critics rather than admirers. Certainly, there are plausible reasons for this bad reputation. Presumptions are...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Duncker & Humblot,
c 2009.
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| Colección: | Comparative studies in continental and Anglo-American legal history ;
Bd. 27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Table of Contents; R.H. HELMHOLZ and W. DAVID H. SELLAR: Presumptions in Comparative Legal History; I. The Reputation of the Law of Presumptions; II. Common Features of the Law of Presumptions; 1. The Patchwork Character of the Sources; 2. The Difficulties of Definition; 3. The Secondary Status of Presumptions; III. Acceptance of Legal Presumptions; IV. Conclusions; Part One: Continental Traditions; ADOLFO GIULIANI: Civilian Treatises on Presumptions, 1580-1620; I. Introduction; II. Separation of Fact and Law; The Old Rhetorical Heritage; Autonomy of the Issue of Fact.
- The Relevance of Judicial Discretion in the Question of FactIII. Principles of Reasoning; Rhetorical Sources; Artificial Proofs; Artificial Reason; Inference from Signs; Rhetorical Influences on Presumptions; IV. Presumption and Will; Interiorisation of Obligation; The Novissimi Hispani; The Need for Presumptions; From Presumption to Interpretation; V. Conclusion; Bibliography of CitedWorks; KNUT WOLFGANG NÖRR: On the Early History of prima facie Evidencein German Law; I.A Case of 1875; II. Three Courts of the 19th Century; III. Collisions at Sea; IV. The Meaning of praesump.
- V. On the Systematic History of praesumptioVI. Transitions; VII. From the Practice of the Reichsgericht; VIII. A New Concept Established; C.H. VAN RHEE: Presumptions in Dutch Private Law (19th and 20th Centuries) within a European Context; I. Introduction; II. What Is a Presumption in Dutch Law?; III. Which Types of Presumptions Can Be Distinguished in Dutch Law?; IV. Conclusion; FRANCESCO MIGLIORINO: The Night Bird of Minerva
- On to Truth and Evidencein the Turning Point of Modernity; I. Introduction; II. The Seal of the Secret; III. En âme et conscience; IV. A Madness without Method.
- Select BibliographyPart Two: English Traditions; DAVID J. SEIPP: Presumptions in Early English Common Law; I. Presumptions in the Bracton Treatise; 1. Negative Usage; 2. The stabitur Maxim; 3. Legitimacy and Paternity; 4. Liberty; 5. Validity; 6. Other Presumptions; 7. Strength of Presumptions; 8. Circumstantial Evidence; 9. Conclusion: Presumptions and Jury Verdicts; II. Presumptions in the Year Books; 1. The Word "Presumption"; 2. "Until the Contrary Be Shown" (and a Presumption of Life); 3. What the Law Understood; 4. Common Understandings (and a Presumption of Liberty).
- 5. Presumptions of Legitimacy and Paternity6. Something Like a Presumption of Innocence (and Sufficient Cause for Arrest); 7. Wife Amenable to Her Husband; 8. Conclusion: Presumptions without Rules of Evidence; Appendix of Year Book Citations; R.H. HELMHOLZ: The Law of Presumptions and the English Ecclesiastical Courts; I. Introduction; II. The Medieval Canon Law; III. Practice and the English Ecclesiastical Courts; 1. The Middle Ages; a) University Training; b) Instance Causes; c) Ex officio Causes; 2. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; a) University Education; b) Instance Causes.