The Unauthorised Agent
The Unauthorised Agent

Author: Danny Busch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1139476351

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The focus of this book, the legal situation created when an agent acts without authority, is one of the most important issues in agency law. The analysis is divided into three sections: apparent authority, ratification and the liability of the falsus procurator. Adopting a unique comparative perspective, the contributions are drawn from many different legal systems, providing the opportunity for analysis of the European common law/civil law divide. The analysis extends beyond Europe, however, taking into account the mixed legal system of South Africa, as well as the United States. Finally, there is a useful consideration of the Principles of European Contract Law and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2004. This study will be an invaluable guide for those interested in the study of comparative law, international practitioners and those interested in the harmonisation of European Private Law.

Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece

Author: William V. Harris

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9047406389

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This volume approaches the history of the great city of Alexandria from a variety of directions: its demography, the interaction between Greek and Egyptian and between Jews and Greeks, the nature of its civil institutions and social relations, and its religious, and intellectual history.

Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies
Legal Literacy in Premodern European Societies

Author: Mia Korpiola

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 3319968637

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​This book analyses the legal literacy, knowledge and skills of people in premodern and modernizing Europe. It examines how laymen belonging both to the common people and the elite acquired legal knowledge and skills, how they used these in advocacy and legal writing and how legal literacy became an avenue for social mobility. Taking a comparative approach, contributors consider the historical contexts of England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. This book is divided into two main parts. The first part discusses various groups of legal literates (scriveners, court of appeal judges and advocates) and their different paths to legal literacy from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. The second part analyses the rise of the ownership and production of legal literature – especially legal books meant for laymen – as means for acquiring a degree of legal literacy from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages

Author: Stefan G. Holz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 3110645203

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In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England, France, Germany and Singapore demonstrate in 11 contributions how this approach can increase our understanding of the rolls and their contents, as well as the contexts in which they were produced and used.

Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law
Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law

Author: Study Group on a European Civil Code

Publisher: sellier. european law publ.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 3866530595

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In this volume, the Study Group and the Acquis Group present the first academic Draft of a Common Frame of Reference (DCFR). The Draft is based in part on a revised version of the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) and contains Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law in an interim outline edition. It covers the books on contracts and other juridical acts, obligations and corresponding rights, certain specific contracts, and non-contractual obligations. One purpose of the text is to provide material for a possible "political" Common Frame of Reference (CFR) which was called for by the European Commission's Action Plan on a More Coherent European Contract Law of January 2003.

Doctors' Commons
Doctors' Commons

Author: George Drewry Squibb

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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"Beginning as a club for clerical lawyers and their friends, the society colloquially known as Doctors' Commons developed into the equivalent of an Inn of Court for the lay judges and advocates of the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. Based on the society's surviving records, this work traces its history to its dissolution in the nineteenth. It throws light on the emergence of the legal profession and its concentration in London. ... An appendix contains a complete register of members of Doctors' Commons, among whom can be found the names of Thomas More, Grocyn, Colet, and Polydore Virgil"--Jacket.