Volume 2: Obligations

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-829928-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 826 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1418 g

Scotland has a special claim for the attention of comparative lawyers, of legal historians, and of those who seek to identify a common core in European private law or to develop a new jus commune. For Scotland stands at the intersection of the two great traditions of European law--of the law of Rome, received and developed in Continental Europe, and of the law which originated in England but was exported throughout the British Empire. In Scotland, uniquely in Europe, there is to be found a fusion of the civil law and the common law.

Law in Scotland has a long history, uninterrupted either by revolution or by codification. It is rich in source material, both printed and archival. Yet hitherto the history of legal doctrine has been relatively neglected. This work is the first detailed and systematic study in the field of private law. Its method is to take key topics from the law of obligations and the law of property and to trace their development from earliest times to the present day. A fascinating picture emerges. The reception of civil law was slow but profound, beginning in the medieval period and continuing until the eighteenth century. Canon law was also influential. This was flanked by two receptions from England, of Anglo-Norman feudalism in the twelfth century and beyond, and, more enduringly, of aspects of English common law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition there was much that was home-grown. Over time this disparate mixture was transformed by legal science into a coherent whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reid, Kenneth

Zimmermann, Reinhard

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- VOLUME 1

- 1: Kenneth Reid and Reinhard Zimmermann: The Development of Legal Doctrine in a Mixed System

- 2: John W. Cairns: Historical Introduction

- 3: Kenneth Reid: Property Law: Sources and Doctrine

- 4: Grant McLeod: The Romanization of Property Law

- 5: C. G. van der Merwe: Accession by Building

- 6: D. L. Carey Miller: Transfer of Ownership

- 7: M. J. de Waal: Servitudes

- 8: Andrew J. M. Steven: Rights in Security over Moveables

- 9: Martin Hogg: Leases: Four Historical Portraits

- 10: Klaus Luig: Assignation

- 11: Niall Whitty: Water Law Regimes

- 12: George Gretton: Trusts

- VOLUME 2

- 1: Gerhard Lubbe: Formation of Contract

- 2: Eric Clive: Interpretation

- 3: William W. McBryde: Error

- 4: J. E. du Plessis: Force and Fear

- 5: Laura J. Macgregor: Pacta Illicita

- 6: Joe Thomson: Unfair Contract Terms

- 7: David Johnston: Breach of Contract

- 8: Alastair Smith: Specific Implement

- 9: Hector L. MacQueen: Third Party Rights in Contract

- 10: W. D. H. Sellar: Promise

- 11: P. J. Sutherland: Contractual Restrictive Covenants

- 12: William M. Gordon: Sale

- 13: A. D. M. Forte: Insurance

- 14: Robin Evans-Jones: Unjustified Enrichment

- 15: Daniel Visser and Niall Whitty: The Structure of the Law of Delict

- 16: Kenneth McK. Norrie: The Intentional Delicts

- 17: Hector L. MacQueen and W. D. H. Sellar: Negligence

- 18: Reinhard Zimmermann and Philip Simpson: Strict Liability

- 19: Phillip Simpson: Vicarious Liability

- 20: Reinhard Zimmermann and Philip Simpson: Liability Among Neighbours

- 21: John Blackie: Defamation

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Reid is Professor of Law at Edinburgh University

Reinhard Zimmermann is Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Law in the University of Regensburg.