Roman law language (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Dustjacket is protected in mylar.; The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools?most prominently analogy and fiction?used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought. In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. Despite the prominence accorded public and international law in legal theory, it was civil law that provided conceptual resources to those other fields in the Roman tradition. Ultimately it was the civil law's implication in systems of domination outside its own narrow sphere that opened the door to its own subversion. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. As a result, forms of domination once exercised by Romans over others were inscribed in the workings of law at Rome, henceforth to be exercised by the Romans over themselves.; Empire and After; 184 pages.…

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xi + 168 (previous owner's neat pencil inscription on front free endpaper).

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Most Latin legal maxims aren't Roman. This book tells you which ones actually are - and proves it. Nullum crimen sine lege sounds like it comes straight from the Twelve Tables. It doesn't - a German criminal-law reformer coined it in 1801. Audi alteram partem has been quoted in courtrooms for centuries as ancient wisdom. Its earliest known source is a playwright, not a jurist. Even lex superior derogat inferiori, the bedrock principle of modern constitutional review, owes more to a twentieth-century Austrian legal theorist than to anything Justinian ever compiled. The Language of Law is a history of legal Latin that refuses to take the Latin at face value. Rather than another list of phrases and translations, it traces where each expression actually came from - genuine classical doctrine, medieval canon law, early modern natural-law theory, or flat-out modern invention dressed in a dead language for gravitas - and shows what's really at stake when a lawyer, judge, or student gets the history wrong. The book moves in five parts: how Latin became Rome's working legal language and how that language was transmitted across two thousand years; the core vocabulary of persons, property, obligations, and crime as the Roman jurists actually used it; the interpretive toolkit - a fortiori, a contrario, lex specialis - that still shapes legal argument today; worked case studies tracing specific Roman solutions into modern civil-law and common-law doctrine; and a sustained examination of the maxims most likely to mislead, including a full classification of which are genuinely classical, which are medieval, and which are modern coinages in a toga. It closes with a 150-entry field guide - persons and things, obligations and delict, procedure and crime, interpretive maxims, everyday legal Latin - each entry giving literal meaning, juridical meaning, Roman background (or the honest absence of one), historical development, modern application, a common misconception, and pronunciation.>Substance before style. Evidence before assertion. Precision before ornament. Cornelis van Houte, LL.D.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 168 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition demonstrates how Roman civil law functioned as an instrument of empire by tracking its application to the challenges of governing diverse and distant people.&Uumlber den AutorClifford.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools-most prominently analogy and fiction-used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought. In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. Despite the prominence accorded public and international law in legal theory, it was civil law that provided conceptual resources to those other fields in the Roman tradition. Ultimately it was the civil law's implication in systems of domination outside its own narrow sphere that opened the door to its own subversion. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. As a result, forms of domination once exercised by Romans over others were inscribed in the workings of law at Rome, henceforth to be exercised by the Romans over themselves.…

8°. XI, 168 pp Original hardcover with dust-jacket Empire and After, series. - Fine, clean.