Legal Transplants : An Approach to Comparative Law

Preface xi Preface to First Edition xiii Abbreviations xv Comparative Law as an Academic Discipline 1(9) Comparative Law not just a method of study 1(2) comprises more than one discipline 3(1) as an independent academic discipline is not study of one foreign system or elementary account of various systems or primarily matter of drawing comparisons 4(2) is study of relationship between systems 6(4) The Perils of Comparative Law 10(6) Superficiality 10(1) getting foreign law wrong 10(1) impossibility of being systematic 11(1) desire to find pattern of development 12(1) Diamond's views on the XII Tables 13(2) arguing too easily to another system 15(1) The Virtues of Comparative Law 16(5) Understanding of nature of law and of legal development 16(1) systematic study of foreign system 17(1) unsystematic knowledge 17(1) the subject matter, historical relationship 18(1) borrowing and transmissibility 19(1) rules and their effects 19(2) Introduction to Legal Transplants 21(10) The paradox, law `the spirit of the people' yet transplants of law overwhelmingly common and important 21(1) the goring ox in the Ancient Near East 22(3) the Roman XII Tables and questionable Greek influence 25(2) mediaeval and later development of action for personal disfigurement 27(2) types of major transplants 29(2) Romans and Roman Law in Roman Egypt 31(5) Persons 32(1) contract 33(1) significance of changes 34(1) Bentham and English law in Bengal 35(1) Roman Systematics in Scotland 36(8) Structure of Justinian's Institutes 36(1) of Regiam Majestatem 36(1) of Stair's Institutions 37(1) of Mackenzie's Institutions 37(1) of Erskine's Institute 38(1) of Bell's Principles 38(1) of Smith's Short Commentary 39(1) of Law School courses 39(2) of Dutch Burgerlijk Wetboek 41(1) significance of arrangement for attitudes 41(3) The Reception of Roman Law in Scotland 44(13) Leges Quatuor Burgorum 44(1) Regiam Majestatem 45(1) 13th-century litigation 45(1) legal education 46(1) Craig's Ius Feudale 46(1) Hope's Major Practicks 47(1) Stair's Institutions 48(1) Mackenzie's Institutions 49(1) 20th-century litigation 49(1) Roman rules in Scotland 50(1) Scottish ignorance and Roman law 50(1) reception and chance 50(1) and nationalism 51(1) and authority 51(1) and mistake 52(1) malitiosus desertor in South Africa 52(1) the concept of furtum usus 53(2) reception into more primitive system 55(1) into very different system 55(1) the trust in South Africa 55(2) Meaning and Authority 57(4) Drunkenness in Rome and Holland 57(1) Chapter 2 of lex Aquilia 58(1) Lex Romana Raetica Curiensis 59(2) Lo Codi 61(4) Summae Codicis 61(1) lo Codi 62(1) Digest and Code 63(2) The Early Law of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 65(6) The Charter 65(1) colonists' separatist tendencies 66(1) The General Lauus 66(1) Bible and `Capital Lawes' 66(1) on Sodomie 67(1) on Rebellious Son 68(1) English law 69(1) alphabetical arrangement of The General Lauus 70(1) English Law in New Zealand 71(4) Persons 71(2) contract and torts 73(1) property 73(1) continuing closeness of English and New Zealand law 74(1) a New Zealand tendency 74(1) Roman Law in the Late Republic 75(4) Great period of legal development 75(1) and of Hellenisation of Rome 75(1) but not of its law 75(1) iniuria 76(1) arra 76(1) systematisation 77(1) transplants not essential for major legal development 77(2) Lex Aquilia: Reception and Non-Reception 79(3) General acceptance of reception 79(1) in South Africa 79(1) contrary view of Thomasius 79(1) and of Heineccius 80(1) danger of exaggeration of reception 81(1) Transfer of Ownership and Risk in Sale 82(6) At Rome 82(1) in French Code civil 82(1) in German Burgerliches Gesetzbuch 82(1) in Switzerland 82(1) Pothier 83(1) Allgemeines Landrecht 83(1) Cuiacius 83(1) Grotius 83(1) Pufendorf 83(1) Barbeyrac 84(1) influences on Code civil 84(1) other views of Pufendorf and Grotius 84(1) clause de dessaisine-saisine 85(1) `Volksgeist' and chance 85(1) Savigny and legal details 86(1) a speculative point on the Code civil 87(1) Authority Again 88(7) Law given by Yahveh, Apollo and Zeus 88(1) codification and national heroes, despots and military leaders 88(1) central role of authority 89(1) brain-washing by authority of Roman law 90(1) Attic law 90(1) Scottish Law Commission 91(2) books and language, Latin and the bulk of the Corpus Juris Civilis 93(1) Blackstone's Commentaries in America 93(2) Some General Reflections 95(7) Comparative Law and Legal History 102(5) Comparative law and history 102(1) Louisiana Civil Code of 1808 103(2) Scottish criminal law 105(2) Afterword 107