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Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity /
Why is the law notoriously unclear, arcane, slow to change in the face of changing circumstances? In this sweeping comparative analysis of the lawmaking process from ancient Rome to the present day, Alan Watson argues that the answer has largely to do with the mixed ancestry of modern law, the confu...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1998.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Introduction -- |t I. Sources of Law in Ancient Rome -- |t II. Europe before the Reception: The Example of Germany and Northern France -- |t III. Reception and Partial Reception: Italy, France, and Scotland -- |t IV.English Law in the Modern Age -- |t V. Legal Department and Confusion of Sources -- |t VI. Two-Tier Law -- |t Notes -- |t Afterword to the 1998 Edition -- |t Index |
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