Law in the Ancient World
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Law / General / History / Ancient / Law Practice / Reference
- Author: Russ Versteeg
- Edition: Paperback
- Release: 0000-00-00
- Format: Paperback (424 pages)
- ISBN 10: 0890899762
- ISBN 13: 9780890899762
- List Price: $45.00
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Book Description: This book examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for a wide perspective of law and the procedural features of these ancient legal systems. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of ancient laws, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both procedure and substance. The book is comprised of four units: Early Mesopotamian Law, Law in Ancient Egypt, Law in Classical Athens, and Roman Law. Each unit has three chapters, and the first chapter in each unit begins with an overview which provides essential historical background. The next section of the initial chapter considers the role of law in society, exploring law in the abstract, the theoretical bases of justice. The middle chapter in each unit traces the development of the ancient judicial systems, distinguishing the various types of judges, courts, and procedures that were employed to make justice available to both citizens and foreigners. The third chapter in each unit reconstructs the substantive laws, including sections detailing Personal Status, Property, Family Law, Inheritance and Succession, Torts, Criminal Law, and Contracts and Commercial Law. A variety of sources, such as early law collections, land records, wills, sales documents, court chronicles, works of ancient literature, accounts of ancient trials, and great codes such as Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis illustrate the sophisticated, often subtle, and complex nature of law in the ancient world.
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