Description: Legal evolution is a way of explaining how the law changes. Basically it suggests that a society's law develops along predetermined lines parallel to those of its other institutions. The idea came to prominence in the mid-eighteenth century as a response to the difficulties experienced by theorists in the field of natural law when applying the notion of universal natural rights to different types of society. Professor Stein traces the beginning of the idea and considers the theories of its main exponents in relation to the prevailing legal thought of their times. He examines in particular the special place of Roman law in shaping ideas of legal development. Finally he considers the different types of opposition which Maine's ideas encountered in the late nineteenth century and the attempts to retain the essentials of legal evolution in a modified form.
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Binding: Hardcover
Book Title: Legal Evolution: The Story of an Idea (The R. M. Jones Lectures i
Number of Pages: 143 Pages
Publication Name: Legal Evolution : the Story of an Idea
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1980
Subject: Natural Law, Jurisprudence, Legal History
Item Weight: 11.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Peter Stein
Subject Area: Law
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Hardcover
