Contents

The Contributors xi

Abbreviations xv

Introduction xvii

ROMAN LAW

1. Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? 3

hans ankum (Amsterdam)

2. Solutio and Traditio 15

J L BARTON (Oxford)

3.

L Capogrossi colognesi (Rome)

4. Some Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists’ Tools 37

GIULIANO CRIFO(Rome)

5. D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited 45

Robert Feenstra (Leiden)

6. Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny’s Panegyricus 51

jane F. Gardner (Reading)

7. Translation and Interpretation 61

william M. Gordon (Glasgow)

8. The Case of the Deliberate Wine Spill 73

Herbert Hausmaninger (Vienna)

9. De Iurisprudentia 79

NEIL Maccormick (Edinburgh)

10. Pigs, Boars and Livestock under the Lex Aquilia 83

grant mcleod (Edinburgh)

11. “Galba Negabat” 93

a D Manfredini (Ferrara)

12. Partes Iuris 103

Theo mayer-maly (Salzburg)

13. “Unus Testis Nullus Testis” 109

Antonino metro (Messina)

14. Unpardonable Crimes: Fourth Century Attitudes 117

o F robinson (Glasgow)

15. The Praetor Hoist with his Own Petard: the 127

Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10

ALAN rodger (Edinburgh)

16. Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations 143

robin SEAGER (Liverpool)

OTHER ANCIENT LAWS

17. Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish and Roman Law: 157

D’varim Haniknim Ba’amira and Dotis Dictio

RANON KATZOFF (Bar Ilan)

18. Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law 173

of Homicide

Geoffrey MACCORMACK (Aberdeen)

19. The Septuagint as Nomos: How the Torah became a 183

“Civic Law” for the Jews of Egypt

Joseph m⅛lEze Modrzejewski (Paris)

20. Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy 201

REUVEN YARON (Jerusalem)

TRANSPLANTS, RECEPTIONS AND COMPARISONS

21. The Education and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in 213

Historical Perspective: From Jurists and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries

hans W baade (Austin)

22.

Problems for the Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing

John W cairns (Edinburgh)

23. Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified 249

Enrichment in Scots Law

robin Evans-Jones (Aberdeen) and phillip hellwege (Cologne)

24. John Adams and the Whale 261

Andrew lewis (London)

25. Leibniz’s Elementa Iuris Civilis and the Private Law of 267

his Time

Klaus LUIG (Cologne)

26. Classifying Crimes 283

RAA mccall smith (Edinburgh)

27. The Shifting Focus of Adoption 297

Joseph W mcknight (Dallas)

28. Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland 333

hector L Macqueen (Edinburgh)

29. Descendit ad Inferos: And Belial Sued Jesus Christ for 353

Trespass

ELTJO schrage (Amsterdam)

30. Saving Souls through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in 365

the Dutch East Indies

AjB SIRKS (Frankfurt a/Main)

31. Legal Change and Scots Private Law 379

JOE THOMSON (Glasgow)

32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical 393

Maxim of Legislation

Andreas wacke (Cologne)

33. Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in the Seventeenth 399

Century: A Man of Theory and Practice

GUNTER WESENER (Graz)

34. A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on 413

Dworkin’s Distinction between Rules and Principles

Laurens WINKEL (Rotterdam)

Index of (Roman and some other) texts discussed 419

Index of proper names and topics 421