The Legal Mind: Essays For Tony Honori'A

by Neil MacCormick, Peter Birks, Peter Birks (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays, published to coincide with Tony Honore's sixty-fifth birthday, focuses on the areas where Honore's thought has made the most significant contribution: Roman law and jurisprudence. Included are essays by P.S. Atiyah, Zenon Bankowski, John Bell, Peter Birks, John W. Cairs, Hugh Collins, David Daube, W. M. Gordon, J. W. Harris Nicola Lacey, A. D. E. Lewis, Detlef Liebs, G. D. MacCormack, Neil MacCormick, G. Maher, Pieter Norr, Alan Rodger, and Peter Stein.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198761969
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/28/1986
Edition description:	Reprint
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.97(d)

Table of Contents

1.	Fraud No. 3	1
2.	Form and Substance in Legal Reasoning: The Case of Contract	19
3.	The Acceptability of Legal Arguments	45
4.	Democracy and Adjudication	67
5.	Fictions Ancient and Modern	83
6.	Natural Justice as Fairness	103
7.	Speech Acts, Legal Institutions, and Real Laws	121
8.	Digest 23.2.6	135
9.	Ownership of Land in English Law	143
10.	The History of the Roman Condictio up to Justinian	163
11.	L. Fufius--Another Undeserving Winner	185
12.	Causam Mortis Praebere	203
13.	Obligations, Sanctions and Obedience	219
14.	Law and Punishment: The Western and the Traditional Chinese 'Legal Mind'	235
15.	The Formation of the Scottish Legal Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Themes of Humanism and Enlightenment in the Admission of Advocates	253
16.	Legal Tradition, with particular reference to Roman Law	279
17.	The Tasks of Historical Jurisprudence	293
18.	The Publications of Tony Honore 1950-1985	307
	Index	313