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The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change
By (Author) James Q. Whitman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Legal history
340.540943
Hardback
300
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
595g
Well after the process of codification had begun elsewhere in nineteenth-century Europe, ancient Roman law remained in use in Germany, expounded by brilliant scholars and applied in both urban and rural courts. The survival of this flourishing Roman legal culture into the industrial era is a familiar fact, but until now little effort has been made