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Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law
Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries
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Index

Aboriginal title. See Radical versus aboriginal title
Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres, 244
Accursius (Italian jurist), 28, 30–31
Acher, Jean, 40
Acta Eruditorum (journal), 165
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 166, 172–173
Albert, Pere. See Pere Albert
Albert (Prince Consort of England), 246
Alexander II (Scotland), 51, 58, 83
Alexander III (Scotland), 37, 75–78, 81–82
Analysis of the Laws of England (Blackstone), 20, 172
Anderson, Edmund, 133–134
d’Andrea, Giovanni. See Giovanni d’Andrea
Annalen der Brittischen Geschichte (journal), 181
Annales of Literature (journal), 137–138
Anselm of Canterbury (Archbishop), 149
Anti-Corn Law League, 237
Antiquities of Rome (Kennett), 134
Anti-Slavery and Aborigines’ Protection Society, 282–283
Arcadia (Sidney), 101
Archaeologia Greca or the Antiquities of Greece (Potter), 134
de Ardizone, Iacobus, See Iacobus de Ardizone
Ashley, Francis, 114
Assizes of David I, 79
Attwood, Bain, 274
Augustus (Rome), 128
Aulus Gellius (Roman author), 130–131
de Aurelianis, Iacobus. See Iacobus de Aurelianis
d’Aurillac, Pierre Jame. See Pierre Jame d’Aurillac
Austin, John, 5
Australia, radical versus aboriginal title in. See also Radical versus aboriginal title
aboriginal title, 279–280
Batman’s Treaty (1835), 274
case law, 264–265, 272–273
Gove Peninsula and, 274
historical evolution, 272–274
Privy Council and, 272–273
treaties, effect of, 274
uninhabited, land deemed prior to colonisation, 272–274
Yolngu people and, 274
Australian High Court, English law in
comparative legal history and, 18–19
contributory negligence and, 292
Court of Appeal precedent, 291–293
evolution of relationship with English law, 286–289
House of Lords precedent, 292
insanity defense and, 294–295
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and, 298
matrimonial law and, 291–293
M’Naghten rule and, 294–295
§92 cases, 296–297
overview, 18–19, 286–289, 303–304
Parker v. The Queen (1963), 286–289, 295–300
Piro v. Foster (1943), 292
Privy Council and, 18–19, 287–289, 294–304
promissory estoppel and, 293–294
unified common law, importance of maintaining, 290–295
unsuccessful attempts to break with English law, 300–303
Waghorn v. Waghorn (1942), 291–292
Wright v. Wright (1948), 292–293
Authenticum (a text of Justinian’s Novels), 28–29
Bacon, Francis, 116, 118
Bacon, Matthew, 132
Bail, 72
Balliol, Edward (Scotland), 54, 80
Balliol, John (Scotland), 53–54, 80
Bancroft, Richard (Archbishop), 100
Barbados
martial law in, 320–321
Militia Act, 308
Servant Act, 308
Slave Code 1661, 306–310, 318–321
slave rebellions in, 321
statistics of slavery in, 305
Barbour, John, 83–84
Barrow, Geoffrey, 53–54
Bartolus (Italian jurist), 131–132
Basilicon Doron (James I/James VI), 97–98, 108–109, 114, 117
Bassianus, Iohannes. See Iohannes Bassianus
C. Bathurst and E. Withers (printers), 124
Batman’s Treaty (1835), 274
Bavaria, obligation to state reasons for court decisions in, 207–208
Benevenantus, Roffredus. See Roffredus Benevenantus (Roffredo da Benevento)
Bernardus Parmensis (Bernard of Parma) (Italian jurist), 64–65
Bethell, Richard (Lord Westbury), 194–195, 197
Bible Society, 238
Biener, Friedrich August, 161–162
Black, David, 88, 92, 105, 117
Blackburn, Colin (Lord), 189–190, 192, 274
Blackstone, William
generally, 16, 21–22
Analysis of the Laws of England, 20
Commentaries (See Commentaries (Blackstone))
in Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 20, 167–170, 172–177, 180–181
radical title and, 266–268
research of, 22
on villeinage, 313
Blanc, Jean. See Jean Blanc
de Blanot, Jean. See Jean de Blanot
Blount, Thomas, 132
Bodin, Jean, 99, 104–105, 148–149, 157
Boniface VIII (Pope), 64–66
Bothwell, Earl of, 105–106, 117
Bower, Walter, 80
Bowles, Michael, 200
Bracton (English legal treatise), 69, 132, 169–170
Bramwell, George (Baron), 199
Brandis, Hermann Friedrich, 216–222
Brennan J, Gerard, 264–266
Brinckmann, Karl Heinrich Ludwig, 245
Britisches Museum für die Deutschen (journal), 181
British Association for the Promotion of Social Sciences, 254
British Museum Library, 242
British South Africa Company, 282–283
Brittische Bibliothek (journal), 181
Britton (English legal treatise), 132
Brooks, Christopher W., 87
Brougham, Henry, 203, 240–241, 246–247
Bruce, Edward (Scotland), 54, 79–80
Bruce, Niall, 80
Bruce, Robert (minister), 99–100
Bruce, Robert (Scotland). See Robert I (Robert the Bruce) (Scotland)
Brudenell, Robert, 101–102
Brunner, Heinrich, 161–162
The Brus (Barbour), 83–84
Bugnyon, Philibert, 131–132
Busby, James, 278
Cade, Elizabeth, 316
Calasso, Francesco, 73, 147
Calderwood, David, 92
Campbell, John (Lord), 197
Canada, radical versus aboriginal title in. See also Radical versus aboriginal title
aboriginal title, 279–280
British North America Act 1867, 274
case law, 262–263, 271
historical evolution of, 269–272
possessory interests, aboriginal rights limited to, 270–272
Privy Council and, 269–271
Royal Proclamation 1763 and, 269–272
treaties, effect of, 274
Tsilqot’in Nation and, 262–263
usufructuary interests, aboriginal rights limited to, 270–272
will of sovereign, aboriginal rights subject to, 270–272
Capograssi, Giuseppe, 141–142
Capua, James Vincent, 319
de Caramanico, Marinus. See Marinus de Caramanico
Case law
Australia, radical versus aboriginal title in, 264–265, 272–273
Canada, radical versus aboriginal title in, 262–263, 271
feudal law, 35–38
in Germany, 18, 206–207 (See also Seuffert’s Archiv)
New Zealand, radical versus aboriginal title in, 261–262
radical versus aboriginal title, 279–280, 285
Cavanagh, Edward, 280
Cecchinato, Andrew J., 16, 20–22
Chamberlain, John, 96
Chancery, 94
Chancery Cases, 133–134
Chancery Reports, 133–134
Channell, Arthur (Baron), 191
Chapman, Henry, 276–277
Charles I (England), 86, 107, 119
Charles II (England), 320
Chattels, slaves as, 309–310
Chitty, Edward, 244
Chitty, Joseph, 191, 196
Cicero, 130–131, 155–156
Cistercians, 37–38
Civilians (scholars of Roman law), 30, 33
Civil law
common law versus, 17–18, 206, 223
in Germany, 206
Claproth, Justus, 20, 169, 172–176, 178, 180
Clement III (Pope), 77
Clement V (Pope), 54
Cobden, Richard, 237
Cobden-Chevalier Treaty (1860), 251
Code (Justinian), 129–130, 153
Coke, Edward
on custom, 142
in Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 169–170
Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian) and, 132–135
on interpretation, 155
James I (England)/James VI (Scotland) and, 88, 94, 101, 103–104, 115–116, 118
on judges, 156–157
legal fiction and, 266
on villeinage, 312
Collection des lois civiles et criminelles des États modernes (Foucher), 244
Collins, Justine, 15
Collinson, Patrick, 99
Coluim, William, 55
Commentaries (Blackstone)
common law, custom and, 144–145
comparative legal history and, 20–21
court decisions, custom and, 152–154
custom and, 142–143, 160
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen and, 167–168, 180–181
integration of law and, 143–144
interpretation and, 154–157
ius commune and, 144–148, 150–151
judges and, 155–157
jurisdiction and, 154–155
justificatory purpose of, 21–22
ordering of law in, 140–142
overview, 20–21
Parliamentary sovereignty and, 157–160
precedent and, 152–154
radical title and, 266–268
rex in regno suo and, 145–152
royal prerogative and, 145–152
text and authority, relationship between, 143, 146
Commentaries (Kent), 276
Commercial law. See Comparative commercial law
Commercial Law of the World (Levi), 21, 243, 246–247, 249–250, 252
Common law
Australian High Court, importance of maintaining unified common law, 290–295
civil law versus, 17–18, 206, 223
custom and, 144–145
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, English common law in, 169–172, 180–181
Communitas regni, 81–82
Comparative commercial law
alignment of commercial law, promotion of, 250–254
arbitration and, 240
changes in commercial law, impact of, 248–249
codification efforts, 250–251
comparative legal history and, 21
importance of comparative approach to, 236
international commercial code, proposal of, 251–254
international conference of, 255–256
joint stock companies and, 250–251
lessons of comparative legal history and, 23
Levi and, 21–22, 240–259
liberalism and, 253–254
overview, 21
Saint-Joseph and, 241–247, 251
similarities between laws of different countries, 241–243
statistics and, 247–248, 252
translation and, 243–244
uniform laws and, 245
Comparative legal history
Australian High Court, English law in, 18–19 (See also Australian High Court, English law in)
challenges of, 22–23
Commentaries (Blackstone) and, 20–21 (See also Commentaries (Blackstone))
commercial law and, 21 (See also Comparative commercial law)
continuous easements and, 14–15 (See also Continuous easements)
difficulties in comparison, 8
educatory purpose of, 22
feudal law and, 16–17 (See also Feudal law)
generalisation and, 9–11
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen, 19–20 (See also Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (German legal journal))
Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian), 21 (See also Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian))
internal versus external legal history, 6–8
James I (England)/James VI (Scotland) and, 15–16, 116–117 (See also James I (England)/James VI (Scotland) as judge)
justificatory purpose, 21–22
lessons of, 23–24
level of comparison, 9–11
metaphor and, 184
overview, 1–4
radical versus aboriginal title and, 17 (See also Radical versus aboriginal title)
Regiam maiestatem and, 13–14 (See also Regiam maiestatem (Scottish law book))
research of, 11–13
Seuffert’s Archiv and, 18 (See also Seuffert’s Archiv)
slave laws in West Indies and, 15 (See also Slave laws)
social legal history, 6–8
subject matter of, 4–6
units of comparison, 9
writing of, 11–13
Compilatio tertia (canon law collection), 31
Comyn, John, 54
Concordances entre les codes de commerce étrangers et le code de commerce français (Saint-Joseph), 242, 245
Congress of Berlin (1878), 257–258
Congress of European Statisticians, 239
Constantine (Rome), 128
Conte, Emanuele, 38–39
Continuous easements
comparative legal history and, 14–15
conflicting French decisions on, 193–194
‘continuous’ element, focus on, 186–187, 198–201
contradictions in French Civil Code provisions, 185–186, 193, 195
differences between French and English rules, 188–189
discontinuous easements versus, 190–192, 199
Gale, incorporation of French rule by, 187–190
influence of French Civil Code on English rule, 14–15, 184, 188–190, 192, 203
legal transplants and, 184–185, 201–203
misinterpretation of French rule by English jurists, 190–192, 198–201
overlooking of French debate by English jurists, 194–197
overview, 14–15, 183, 204–205
recent origins of French rule, 189, 192–193
role of English treatises, 204
Cooper, Anthony Ashley (Lord), 48–49, 53, 57, 65
Cooper, Thomas, 125–126
Copeland, Rita, 68–69
Corpus iuris canonici, 120
Corpus iuris civilis, 30–32, 120
Cortese, Ennio, 153–154
Cotter, William R., 316
Cours de droit commercial (Pardessus), 244
de Covarrubias y Leyva, Diego, 131–132
Cowell, John, 132
The Critical Review (journal), 137–138
Croke, George, 133–134
Cujas, Jacques (Jacobus Cujacius) (French jurist), 131–132
Custom
Coke on, 142
Commentaries (Blackstone) and, 142–143, 160
common law and, 144–145
court decisions and, 152–154
in Glanvill, 82
in Libri feudorum, 33–35, 38–42, 45
Roman law versus, 25–27
Customs of Catalonia between Lords and Vassals (Pere Albert), 39
Dalgleish, Nicholas, 88
Davey, Horace (Lord), 281
David I (Scotland), 52, 54–55, 58, 63–67, 70–71, 79–80
David II (Scotland), 83
David (Biblical King), 97, 108
Davies, John Reuben, 60, 64
Davy, William, 316
Dawson, John, 206–207, 223
De actionibus (Jean de Blanot), 38, 40–41
Decretum (Gratian), 31, 159
De feudis (title of section of canon law), 31
De iure communi Angliae (Gatzert), 20, 169–173, 175–178
De l’esprit des lois (Montesquieu), 134
de Denarii, Odofredus. See Odofredus de Denarii
Denning, Alfred Thompson ‘Tom’ (Lord), 18–19, 290, 293–294, 299, 303
De usu et authoritate Iuris civilis Romanorum in dominiis principum Christianorum (Duck), 138
Dicey, Albert, 319
Dickins, Francis, 130
Digest (Justinian), 64–65, 72, 129–130, 155–156, 222
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 130–131
Disraeli, Benjamin, 240
Dixon CJ, Owen, 287–304. See also Australian High Court
Domat, Jean, 131–132, 135
Donne, John, 100
Doujat, Jean, 131–132
The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (Lugard), 284
Duck, Arthur, 138
Dullius Gambarini (Italian jurist), 31
Dumoulin, Charles, 32–33
Duncan, Archibald Alexander McBeth, 53, 59–61
Durand, Guillaume. See Guillaume Durand
Duranton, Alexandre, 193, 195–197
Dyer, James, 133–134
Dyzenhaus, David, 319–320
Easements. See Continuous easements
Eden, Robert, 131–132
Edgeworth, Brendan, 265–266
Edward I (England), 51, 53–55, 64, 75–77, 266
Egerton, Thomas (Lord Chancellor Ellesmere), 100
Ehrlich, Eugene, 4–5
Elias CJ, Sian, 261–262
Elizabeth I (England), 15–16, 92
Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor (Thomas Egerton), 100
Elsyng, Henry, 119
Elwes, John, 122
England
Australian High Court, English law in (See Australian High Court, English law in)
British Colonial Office, 295
Chancery, 94
commercial prosperity in, 237–238
Common Law Procedure Act 1854, 240
comparative commercial law and, 254–255
comparative law, efforts to codify, 242–243
continuous easements in (See Continuous easements)
Conveyancing Act 1881, 186
Hanoverian succession, 163
Law of Property Act 1925, 186
Mercantile Law Amendments Act 1856, 246–247, 250
Privy Council (See Privy Council)
slave laws in West Indies (See Slave laws in West Indies)
Star Chamber, 86, 88, 93–102, 107, 115–116, 118
status of slaves in English territory, 313–317
Statute of Artificers 1563, 319–320
Union of Crowns (1603), 51
Vagrancy Act 1547, 318
Enlightenment, 207–208
Entanglements, 8
Epitome feudorum (Jean de Blanc), 35–39, 42–43
Erle CJ, William, 198
Estienne, Robert, 134
Evangelical Continental Society, 238
Faber, Basil, 134
Faber, Peter, 133
de Ferrière, Claude-Joseph, 131–132, 135
Feudal kingship, 77–78
Feudal law
Carolingian era, emergence in, 27–28
case law, 35–38
common law and, 45–46
comparative legal history and, 16–17
contract law, 42–44
fiefs and, 32–33, 36–38, 41–42, 45
homage and, 39–42, 45
ius commune and, 25, 30–31, 38, 45–46
lèse-majesté and, 39–42
Libri feudorum and (See Libri feudorum (Italian law book))
overview, 16–17, 25–27
practice in, 35–38
Roman law versus custom, 25–27
spontaneous emergence of, 27–28
Fiefs, 32–33, 36–38, 41–42, 45
Field, Davis Dudley, 254
Filangieri, Gaetano, 250
Fischer, Carsten, 19–20, 22–23
Fitzherbert, Anthony, 132
Fletcher, Ned, 275
Foelix, Jean-Jacques Gaspard, 244
Ford, John, 107
Fortescue, John, 101, 132, 142
Foster, Michael, 135
Foucher, Victor, 244
France
Civil Code, 241–242
Code de Commerce, 241–242, 244, 248
comparative commercial law and, 254–255
continuous easements in (See Continuous easements)
Frankfurter J, Felix, 290, 293–294, 296–297, 303
Frederick I (Germany/Emperor), 41
Frederick II (Germany/Emperor), 73
Fullagar J, Wilfred Kelsham, 290, 295, 297
Gail, Andreas, 209
Gaius (Roman jurist), 120
Gale, Charles, 14, 187–190, 192–201, 204
Galloway, Patrick, 100
Gambarini, Dullius. See Dullius Gambarini
Ganshof, François-Louis, 27–29
Gaspar, David Barry, 306, 318–319
Gatzert, Christian Hartmann Samuel, 20, 22–23, 169–178
A General Abridgement of Cases in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery etc., 133–134
George II (England), 166
George III (England), 122
Germany
Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (Civil Code), 211
case law in, 18, 206–207 (See also Seuffert’s Archiv)
civil law in, 206
collections of court decisions in, 208–209
English law, interest in, 161–164
gelehrte Zeitschriften (learned journals) in, 164–165, 181–182
General German Commercial Code (ADHGB), 248–249, 252
General Law on Bills of Exchange, 248–249
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (See Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (German legal journal))
Kameralliteratur, 209
obligation to state reasons for court decisions in, 207–208
Seuffert’s Archiv (See Seuffert’s Archiv)
Gibson, Edmund, 132
Gibson, James, 91
Gilbert, Jeffrey, 133–134
Giovanni d’Andrea (canonist), 66
Glanvill (English legal treatise)
generally, 13–14
bail in, 72
custom in, 82
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen and, 169–170
Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian) and, 132, 135
Institutes (Justinian) and, 71
maiestas (majesty) in, 71
Regiam maiestatem, as textual authority for, 51–56, 62–71, 85
translation of, Regiam maiestatem as, 68–69
writs in, 62–63
Gleeson, Murray, 287–288
von Gneist, Rudolf, 161–162
Godolphin, John, 132
Goffredus Tranensis (Goffredo de Trano) (Italian jurist), 52, 62, 65, 67, 74–75
Goodare, Julian, 87, 106
Göttingen University, 166, 170–171, 177
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (German legal journal)
anonymity of authorship, 167–168
Blackstone in, 20, 167–170, 172–177, 180–181
challenges of comparative legal history and, 22–23
Coke in, 169–170
Commentaries (Blackstone) and, 167–168, 180–181
comparative legal history and, 19–20
contemporary ascriptions, 167–168
difficulty of comparing German and English law, 178–179
English common law in, 169–172, 180–181
English law books, reviews of, 166–167
founding of journal, 165–166
Glanvill and, 169–170
hints at authorship, 167–168
influence of, 181
ius commune and, 179–181
language barriers between German and English, 176
motivations for reviews in, 173–174
overview, 19–20, 161–164
Scottish law in, 178
superficiality of reviews, 178
types of English text referenced in, 176–178
Gratian (canonist), 31
Great Cause (1291-1292), 76, 83–84
Great Exhibition (1851), 246
Gregorius (Roman jurist), 128
Gregory IX (Pope), 133
Grey, Earl (Viscount Howick), 276
Griffith, Samuel, 295–296
Grimm, Jacob, 162–163
Gronovius, Johann Friedrich, 131–132
Grotius, Hugo, 131–132, 148–149
Gudelinus, Petrus (Pierre Goudelin), 135
Guicciardini, Francesco, 140
Guillaume Durand (canonist), 39
Gundermann, Joseph Ignaz, 161–162
Günzl, Clara, 18
Gutteridge, Harold Cooke, 256
Gyb, James, 112–113
Habeas corpus, slaves and, 316
Haldane, Richard (Viscount), 284
Hale, Matthew, 8, 132, 145, 148
Hallifax, Samuel, 130
Halpérin, Jean-Luis, 256
Hamburger unpartheyischer Correspondent (journal), 165
Hamilton, John (Lord Sumner), 283
Hamilton, Marquess, 99
Hannay, Robert Kerr, 89
Harding, Alan, 53–55
Hardres, Thomas, 133–134
Hardwicke, Lord (Philip Yorke), 315
Harris, George, 21, 121–124. See also Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian)
Harris, John, 121
Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian)
advertisement, 127
assessment of, 136–138
‘A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the Roman Law’, 127–129
challenges of comparative legal history and, 23
Coke and, 132–135
comparative legal history and, 21
dedication, 126–127
editions of, 124–126
Glanvill and, 132, 135
notes, 129–134
overview, 21, 120–121, 138–139
sources, 129–136
subtitles, 130
supplement, 134–135
Hawkins, William, 132
Hawley, Henry, 122
Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm, 162
Heineccius, Johann Gottlieb, 131–132
Heirbaut, Dirk, 29
Heise, Georg Arnold, 211, 216
Hengham Magna (English legal treatise), 69
Henricus de Segusio. See Hostiensis
Henry II (England), 64, 70, 77
Henry VII (England), 84, 102
Hermogenes (sic) (Roman jurist), 128
Herodotus, 130–131
Hickford, Mark, 279
Historical School of Law, 161
History of British Commerce and of the Economic Progress of the British Nation 1763-1870 (Levi), 253
Holdsworth, William Searle, 187–188
Holt, John, 135, 314–315
Homage, 39–42, 45
Homer, 130–131
Hooke, Nathaniel, 125
Hoppe, Joachim, 131–132
Hostiensis (Henricus de Segusio) (Italian jurist), 31
Hotman, François, 131–132
Hoüard, David, 57
Howard, Thomas, 115–116
Hudson, William, 100–101
Hudson Bay Company, 269
Hugh IV (Burgundy), 38
Huntly, Earl of, 117
Hywel Dda (Wales), 64
Iacobus de Ardizone (Italian jurist), 16–17, 30–31, 34–39
Iacobus de Aurelianis (French jurist), 16–17, 42–45
Ibbetson, David, 7
Imbrication, 5
Indentured servants, slaves compared, 308, 313, 319
Indigenous peoples. See Radical versus aboriginal title
Innocent III (Pope), 37
Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St. Andrews, 1
Institutes (Justinian)
generally, 38, 64–65
educatory purpose of, 22
Glanvill and, 71
Harris translation of (See Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian))
Regiam maiestatem and, 71
International Academy of Comparative Law, 256
International Commercial Law (Levi), 21, 247–249, 252
Iohannes Bassianus (Italian jurist), 39
Ireland, Mercantile Law Amendments Act 1856, 246–247, 250
‘Italophobia’, 26
Italy
Ancona Chamber of Commerce, 239
Catholicism in, 238
comparative commercial law and, 249, 254–255
feudal law in (See Feudal law)
Jews in, 236–237, 239
Libri feudorum (See Libri feudorum (Italian law book))
Risorgimento (unification), 239, 249
Ius commune
Commentaries (Blackstone) and, 144–148, 150–151
feudal law and, 25, 30–31, 38, 45–46
Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen and, 179–181
Jacques de Revigny, 33
Jacques d’Orleans. See Iacobus de Aurelianis
Jamaica
martial law in, 320–321
Militia Act 1664, 321
Slave Code, 321
slave laws in, 320–321
James I (England)/James VI (Scotland) as judge
appropriateness of, 102–116
Biblical ideas of kingship and, 97–100, 106–107
Chancery and, 94
Coke and, 88, 94, 101, 103–104, 115–116, 118
comparative legal history and, 15–16, 116–117
England, cases judged in, 91, 93–97
exemplarity and, 111, 115
informal acts by, 88–89
infrequency of judging, 115–116
interventions in legal process, 89
on King as judge, 87, 97–102
legacy of, 117–119
lessons of comparative legal history and, 23
literary ideas of kingship, 101
meaning of judging and, 88–89
mercy and, 114–115
Overbury scandal and, 106, 108, 112
overview, 15–16
partiality and, 104–105
political expediency and, 105–106
religion and, 110
royal duty and, 106–112, 115
Scotland, cases judged in, 90–93
Scottish Privy Council and, 87–88, 90–92
self-limitations, 103–105
sentencing and, 112–115
Star Chamber and, 86, 88, 93–102, 115–116
theory versus practice, 87
as two Kings, 86–87
worthiness of cases and, 105
James I (Scotland), 47, 49, 79
James II (Scotland), 59
James III (Scotland), 59
James VI (Scotland). See James I (England)/James VI (Scotland) as judge
Jasanoff, Maya, 267
Jean Blanc (French jurist), 16–17, 35–39, 42–43, 45
Jean de Blanot (French jurist), 16–17, 38–43, 45
von Jehring, Rudolf, 212
John XXII (Pope), 54, 77
John the Scot, 77
Josev, Tanya, 18–19
Journal des Savans, 165, 244
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 252
Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation, 255
Justinian (Rome)
Authenticum (a text of Novels), 28–29
Code, 129–130, 153
Digest (See Digest (Justinian))
Harris translation of Institutes (See Harris translation of Institutes (Justinian))
Institutes (See Institutes (Justinian))
Novels, 28–29, 130, 134–135
Kay J, Edward Ebenezer, 191–192
Keilway’s Reports, 133–134
Kemble, John Mitchell, 162–163
Kennedy, Duncan, 4, 6, 10–11, 23–24
Kennefick, Ciara, 14–15
Kennett, Basil, 134
Kent, Ambrose, 122
Kent, James, 276–277
Kern, Fritz, 26
Killeen, Kevin, 99
King’s College London, 239, 256–258
Kingship and Law (Kern), 26
Kinloss Abbey, 79
Knowles, Captain, 315–316
Korporowicz, Łukasz Jan, 21–23
Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Rechtswissenschaft (journal), 245
Kuntze, Johannes Emil, 212
Lake, Thomas, 96–99, 106, 108–112, 116
Lambert, Edouard, 253
Lambeth Palace Library, 121–123, 136
La norma giuridica (Cortese), 153–154
Latham, John, 297
Law Amendment Society, 240–241
Lawson, Harry, 203
Lectura authentici (Jacques de Revigny), 33
Lee, George, 126–127
Legal consciousness, 6
Legal transplants
continuous easements and, 184–185, 201–203
individual rules, 14–15
as metaphor, 184
overview, 8
political principles, 13–14
Regiam maiestatem as, 67–68
slave laws in West Indies as, 306
villeinage as, 312
Lehnsrecht und Staatsgewalt (Mitteis), 27
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 165
Lèse-majesté, 39–42, 78–81
Les six livres de la République (Bodin), 157
Levi, Leone. See also Comparative commercial law
comparative commercial law and, 21–22, 240–259
in England, 240–242
legacy of, 254–259
liberalism and, 253–254
life of, 236–239
methodology of, 23
politicians, relationships with, 240–241
pragmatism of, 258
on similarities between laws of different countries, 241–243
statistics and, 247–248, 252
translation and, 243–244
on working conditions, 258
Levine’s King’s Bench and Common Pleas Reports 1660–1697, 133–134
Lewison LJ, Kim Martin Jordan, 187, 192
Lex Julia (Roman law), 72
Lex Si imperialis (Roman law), 153–154
Liber Augustalis (Frederick II), 73
Liber domini Symonis (Symon Vicentinus), 30
Liber extra (Gregory IX), 64–65, 133
Liber sextus (Boniface VIII), 64–66
Libri feudorum (Italian law book)
acceptance of, 31–33
conceptions of legal practices and, 29–30
contract law in, 42–44
custom in, 33–35, 38–42, 45
emergence of, 28–29
evolution of, 30–31
fiefs and, 32–33, 41–42, 45
homage and, 39–42, 45
legal practices independent of, 29
lèse-majesté and, 39–42
overview, 16–17
Liebermann, Felix, 162
Lincoln’s Inn, 239
Littleton, Thomas, 132, 135, 169–170
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 238, 240–241
Living law, 4–5
Lombard, feudal law in. See Feudal law
Long, Edward, 311
Lugard, Frederick, 284
Lyon-Caen, Charles, 255–256
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 159
Mackenzie, George, 134
MacQueen, Hector, 50–51
Mael Coluim, 55, 58
Magnus VI (Norway), 78
Maiestas (majesty)
in Glanvill, 71
princeps versus, 73–74
in Regiam maiestatem, 71–77, 85
superior versus, 73–74
Maine, Henry, 9–10
Maitland, Frederic William, 2, 5, 11–12, 22, 162–163
Mamdani, Mahmood, 283–284
Manners, Anne (Lady Roos), 96
Manners, John (Lord Roos), 96
Mansfield, Lord (William Murray), 316
Margarita feudorum (Dullius Gambarini), 31
Marinus de Caramanico, 73–74
Marlow, John, 316
Marshall, John, 276–277
Marshall, Susan, 56
Martial law, slaves and, 308–309, 319–321
Martin CJ, William, 277
Marxism, 4–5
McHugh, Paul, 269, 271
McLachlin CJ, Beverly, 262–263
McNeil, Kent, 280
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), 101
de Medicina, Pillius. See Pillius Medicinensis
Ménage, Gilles, 131–132
Menzies, Douglas, 297–299, 301
Menzies, Robert, 300–301
Merlin, Philippe-Antoine, 192, 196
Merton, Robert, 202
Metaphor, 184
Milsom, Stroud Francis Charles, 10, 23–24
Milton, John, 134
Mitteis, Heinrich, 27–29
Mittermaier, Karl Joseph, 244, 255
Monatsgespräche (journal), 165
Montagu, Henry, 118
Montesquieu, 134, 155–157, 202
Monti, Annamaria, 21–23
Morice, James, 101–102
Morris, Thomas, 318
Murray, William (Lord Mansfield), 316
Mynsinger von Frundeck, Joachim, 131–132, 209
Napier, Barbara, 93, 98–99, 102–108, 111, 114
Napoleon, 184
Neilson, George, 49, 51
Neue Zeitungen von gelehrten Sachen (journal), 165
New Zealand, radical versus aboriginal title in. See also Radical versus aboriginal title
aboriginal title, 275–277, 279–280
case law, 261–262
historical evolution of, 274–282
Land Claims Act 1840, 278
Land Claims Ordinance 1841, 278, 281
Land Titles Protection Act 1902, 281
Maori customary rights and, 261–262, 274–282
Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act 1904, 281
Native Land Act 1909, 279–281
Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act 1901, 281
Native Land Court, 278, 280–281
Native Rights Act 1865, 281
Privy Council and, 279–282, 284–285
Rangitane people and, 280
statutory law and, 278–279
Treaty of Waitangi (1840), 274–278, 281–282
Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, 275
United States law and, 276–277
Waitangi Tribunal, 275
New Zealand Company, 275–276
New Zealand Journal, 276
Nicholson, Bradley J., 317–318
Nigeria, radical versus aboriginal title in, 283–285
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 183, 204
Novels (Justinian), 28–29, 130, 134–135
Obertus de Orto (Italian jurist), 16–17, 30, 33–35, 38
Odofredus de Denarii (Italian jurist), 30–31, 38–39
d’Orleans, Jacques. See Iacobus de Aurelianis
Orto, Obertus de. See Obertus de Orto
Orwell, George, 183, 204
Ottoman Empire, comparative commercial law and, 256–258
Oughton, Thomas, 133
Outlines of an International Code (Field), 254
Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, 296
Paraphrase (Theophilus), 130–131
Pardessus, Jean-Marie, 194–197, 244–245
Paris, Matthew, 146–149
Parke, James (Baron), 197
Parmensis, Bernardus. See Bernardus Parmensis
Pearce, Edward (Baron), 290, 298, 301–302
Penman, Michael, 53–54
Pennington, Kenneth, 74
Pere Albert (Catalan jurist), 39
Peter of Spain, 44
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 165
Pierre Jame d’Aurillac (French jurist), 32–33
Pillius Medicinensis (Pillius de Medicina) (Italian jurist), 30–31, 35–36
Plowden, Edmund, 133–134
Plutarch, 130–131
Pocock, John Greville Agard, 266
Police law, slaves and, 308–309, 317–319
Pothier, Robert-Joseph, 192–193, 196, 203
Potter, John, 134
Pound, Roscoe, 7
Precedent
Australian High Court, English law in, 291–293
Commentaries (Blackstone) and, 152–154
overview, 18–19
Seuffert’s Archiv, Präjudizien and, 212–213, 223
Prendergast CJ, James, 281–282
Presbyterian Church of England, 238
Principles of Politics and Government (Ullmann), 77–78
Privy Council
generally, 290
Australian High Court and, 18–19, 287–289, 294–304
radical versus aboriginal title and, 17, 261, 269–273, 279–282, 284–285
Prussia, obligation to state reasons for court decisions in, 207–208
Qu’est-ce-que la féodalité? (Ganshof), 27
Quoniam attachiamenta (Scottish law book), 49–50
Rabin, Dana, 315
Radical versus aboriginal title
aboriginal title generally, 260–261, 279–280
in Australia (See Australia, radical versus aboriginal title in)
Blackstone and, 266–268, 273
in Canada (See Canada, radical versus aboriginal title in)
case law, 279–280, 285
Commentaries (Blackstone) and, 266–268, 273
comparative law analysis, 261
comparative legal history and, 17
feudalism versus capitalism, 266–267
inconsistencies in law, 268, 285
legal fiction, radical title as, 265–267
in New Zealand (See New Zealand, radical versus aboriginal title in)
in Nigeria, 283–285
overview, 17
Privy Council and, 17, 261, 269–273, 279–282, 284–285
radical title generally, 260
in Southern Rhodesia, 282–283
terra nullius and, 261
Randolph, Thomas, 79–80
Rastell, John, 132
Raymond, Robert (Lord), 133–135
Realty, slaves as, 310
Recolentes (Alexander III), 37–38
Regiam maiestatem (Scottish law book)
archaicising nature of, 58
bail in, 72
Bute manuscript, 51–52, 58, 60–61
change in, 58–59
communitas regni and, 81–82
comparative legal history and, 13–14
compilation of, 51–56, 60–63
David I, references to, 63–67, 70–71
difficulties of, 57
editorial techniques in, 62–63
Glanvill as textual authority for, 51–56, 62–71, 85
historiography of, 57
influence of, 50
Institutes (Justinian) and, 71
jurisdiction in, 81
as legal transplant, 67–68
lèse-majesté in, 78–81
maiestas (majesty) in, 71–77, 85
origins of, 49–56, 83
overview, 13–14, 47–49
political theory in, 83–85
as single work, 62
survival of manuscripts, 57–59
as translation, 68–69
treason in, 78–81
Reid, John (Baron), 290
République (Bodin), 99
de Revigny, Jacques. See Jacques de Revigny
Revue Foelix (journal), 242
Rex in regno suo, 145–152
Reynolds, Susan, 29
Reyscher, August Ludwig, 212, 223
Richmond J, Christopher William, 280–282
Robert I (Robert the Bruce) (Scotland), 13–14, 52–55, 77–84
Robert of Naples, 84
Roffredus Benevenantus (Roffredo da Benevento) (Italian jurist), 39, 43
Romulus (Rome), 127
Roos, Lady (Anne Manners), 96, 109
Roos, Lord (John Manners), 96
Ross, Thomas, 91
Royal prerogative, 145–152
Royal Proclamation 1763, 269–272
Royal Statistical Society, 239, 246–247
Rugemer, Edward, 306
de Saint-Joseph, Fortuné Anthoine, 241–247, 251
St. Germain, Christopher, 132
Saleilles, Raymond, 253
Salkeld, William, 133–134
Sanders, Thomas Collett, 126
Saxony, obligation to state reasons for court decisions in, 207–208
Schönfeld, Karl, 156–157
Scienza della legislazione (Filangieri), 250
Scotland
Brig O’Dee Rebellion (1589), 117
Declaration of Arbroath (1320), 77, 82
High Commission, 92
Jacobite rising (1745-1746), 51
James VI (See James I (England)/James VI (Scotland) as judge)
Mercantile Law Amendments Act 1856, 246–247, 250
North Berwick Witch Trials, 93
Parliament, 87
Privy Council, 87–88, 90–92
Quoniam attachiamenta, 49–50
Regiam maiestatem (See Regiam maiestatem (Scottish law book))
Soules Conspiracy (1320), 54, 79–81
Union of Crowns (1603), 51
Secher, Ulla, 280, 282
de Segusio, Henricus. See Hostiensis
Selden, John, 140–142, 148–150
Servitudes. See Continuous easements
Seuffert, Ernst August, 210
Seuffert, Johann Adam, 209–212. See also Seuffert’s Archiv
Seuffert’s Archiv
application of legal rules to cases, 222
comparative legal history and, 18
first questions of law, 218–219
guiding principles, 218
headlines, 218
importance of, 223
integration of theory and practice in, 211
‘one and only solution’, search for, 214
opinions, 220–221
origins of, 209–212
overview, 18, 207, 223
Pandektensystem in, 211
Präjudizien and, 212–213, 223
process of court file to entry in, 215–218
second questions of law, 219–220
statements of judges, 221–222
structure of, 210–211
Sextus Aelius (Roman jurist), 128
Sextus Papirius (Roman jurist), 127
Seybert, Phillip Heinrich, 168–169, 173–176
Sharp, Granville, 316
Shower, Bartholomew, 135
Siderfin, Thomas, 133–134
Sidney, Philip, 101
Simonds, Gavin (Viscount), 290, 293, 301–302
Simpson, Alfred William Brian, 4–6, 14, 184–185, 189–190
Simpson, Andrew, 49–50
Simpson, Edward, 127
Skene, John, 47–49, 57, 65, 77. See also Regiam maiestatem
Slattery, Brian, 269
Slave laws in West Indies
Barbados (See Barbados)
chattels, slaves as, 309–310
claims to property rights, 310, 313–315
comparative legal history and, 15
control of slaves, 306, 308
habeas corpus and, 316
indentured servants compared, 308, 313, 319
Jamaica, 320–321
as legal transplant, 306
martial law and, 308–309, 319–321
non-English laws, influence of, 306–307
overview, 321
passes, 319
police law and, 308–309, 317–319
property, slaves as, 306, 308
race, legal definitions of, 306
realty, slaves as, 310
rebellions of slaves, 308
statistics of slavery, 305–306
trespass actions to recover slaves, 313–315
trover actions to recover slaves, 313–315
vagrancy law and, 308–309, 317–319
villeinage and, 311–317
Smith, Thomas, 132
Société de Législation Comparée, 255
Society of Comparative Legislation, 255
Solomon (Biblical king), 97, 106–107
Somerset, James, 315–317
de Soules, William, 80
Southern Rhodesia, radical versus aboriginal title in, 282–283
Spain, comparative commercial law and, 254–255
Speculum iudiciale (Guillaume Durand), 39
Stair, Viscount (James Dalrymple), 85, 134
Starke J, Hayden Erskine, 297
Staunford, William, 101
Stella, Attilio, 17
Stephen CJ, Alfred, 272–273
Stewart, Archibald, 178
Stewart, Charles, 315–316
Stewart, Robert (Scotland), 51–52, 79–80
Stillingfleet, Edward, 133–134
Stracca, Benvenuto, 258–259
Strahan, William, 131–132
Strange, John, 133–134
Suetonius (Roman historian), 130–131
Sugden, Edward, 197
Summa decretalium (Hostiensis), 31
Summa feudorum (Iacobus de Ardizone), 30–31, 34–35
Summa feudorum (Iacobus de Aurelianis), 42
Summa feudorum (Odofredus), 30–31
Summa feudorum (Pillius), 30
Summa super titulis decretalium, 52, 62, 65, 67, 74–75
Sumner, Lord (John Hamilton), 283
Swinburne, Henry, 132
Symon Vicentinus (Italian jurist), 30
Tacitus (Roman historian), 130–131
Talbot, Charles, 315
Tamaki, Nireaha, 280–282
Tarquinius Priscus (Roman king), 127
Taylor, Alice, 13–14
Taylor, John, 131–132
Terra nullius, 261
Tetrachordon (Milton), 134
Teubner, Gunther, 186
Thémis (journal), 242
Theocratic kingship, 77–78
Theodosius (Rome), 128, 130–131
Theophilus (jurist), 130–131
Thesaurus eruditionis scholasticae (Faber), 134
Thesaurus linguae latinae (Estienne), 134
Thomasius, Christian, 165
Thompson, Edward Palmer, 5
Thomson, Thomas, 48–49, 57, 59, 65
Tijani, Amodu, 284
Titles of Honor (Selden), 148–150
Tomlins, Christopher, 306, 308
Toullier, Charles-Bonaventure-Marie, 188, 193, 195, 197
Tout, Thomas Frederick, 162–163
Tranensis, Goffredus. See Goffredus Tranensis
Treason, 78–81
Treaty of Paris (1763), 269
Treaty of Perth (1266), 78
Treaty of Waitangi (1840), 274–278, 281–282
Trespass actions to recover slaves, 313–315
The Trew Law of Free Monarchies (James I/James VI), 97–98, 108
Trover actions to recover slaves, 313–315
Tullis, Sarah, 70
Ullmann, Walter, 77–78
Ulpian (Roman jurist), 72
Ungoed-Thomas J, Lynn, 191
UNIDROIT, 256
United Kingdom. See England; Scotland
United States
comparative commercial law and, 254–255
New Zealand, reliance on United States law regarding radical versus aboriginal title, 276–277
Vagrancy law, slaves and, 308–309, 317–319
van der Made, Simon van Groenewegen, 131–132
de Vattel, Emer, 249
Vaughan, John, 133–134
Vernon, Thomas, 133–134
Vicentinus, Symon. See Symon Vicentinus
Villeinage
in gross, 311–312, 314
as legal transplant, 312
regardant, 311–312, 314
slave laws and, 311–317
slavery distinguished, 313–314
Viner, Carl, 178
Vinnius, Arnold, 127, 129, 131–132
Voet, Johannes, 135
Voltaire, 172
Walkin, Thomas, 316
Wallace, William, 78, 80
Watson, Alan, 312, 317
Watson, William (Lord), 270–273
Weber, Adolph Dietrich, 214
Wentworth, John, 122
Wesenbeck, Matthew, 131–132
Westbury, Lord (Richard Bethell), 194–195, 197
West Indies, slave laws in. See Slave laws in West Indies
Wiecek, William M., 313–314
Wilde, Thomas (Baron), 190, 198
Willes, William Henry, 198–201, 204
William II (England), 146–147, 149
Williams, David V., 17
Williams, Ian, 15–16
Williams, John (Bishop), 102
Williams, William Peere, 135
William the Lion (Scotland), 58, 65, 77, 83
Wilson, Adelyn, 49–50
Windeyer J, William John Victor, 290, 297, 299–300
Wishart, Robert, 83–84
Władysław (Poland), 77
Wood, Thomas, 131–132
Wormald, Jenny, 87
Yorke, Philip (Lord Hardwicke), 315
Zaller, Robert, 118–119
Zedlers Universal-Lexicon (legal encyclopedia), 175

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