Paul J du Plessis (ed), Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law: British Perspectives
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2020.0623 |
| Pages | 171-174 |
| Date | 01 January 2020 |
| Published date | 01 January 2020 |
During the five-hundred or so years of the Roman Republic, scholars know of roughly twenty, seemingly important, statutes that relate broadly to matters of private law. Of these statutes, Roman lawyers are likely to be especially familiar with one: the
What more, one might ask, remains to be said about this Roman relic? This new collection of essays on the Aquilian delict is not a presentation of Roman legal scholarship in the conventional sense. Indeed, in surprisingly large tracts, they produce little by way of legal-historical reconstruction, at least in the orthodox understanding of the “history
By “our”, many of the contributors – including both neophyte and veteran Romanists – have in mind the British legal professoriate that emerged in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Although steeped in the historical wisdom of the English Common Law, increasingly, these British academic lawyers saw Roman legal antecedents as harbouring the potential to enrich their scholarly and didactic vision. Rather than becoming more fervent in their idolatry, the contributors to this volume adopt a...
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