It is the first English edition of the Brahmanic Code, translated by the British philologist and Indian scholar Sir William Jones. It was first published in 1794, twenty-one years after the British Parliament asserted sovereignty over the East India Company and consolidated its state control over India. The smriti (biblical writings) of Menu, or Manu, are one of the nineteen Dharmaśāstra, important Sanskrit texts on the Dharma, religious and legal duties. Modern scholars have pointed out that Manusmriti were more codes of conduct and social norms than formal legal systems, as Jones understood them given their sophisticated treatment of jurisprudence. Due to its influential translation, they were widely regarded as the law of the land in India and are still generally regarded today as the source of classical Hindu law. Although they may be a source of debate for Hindu jurists, the Manusmriti nevertheless represent the first significant introduction into the Western world of the religious and civil codes that have shaped Indian society for centuries. Also known as Ta Ch`ing lü or the Great Code of Qing Law, it was the legal code of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and was actually the last legal code of imperial China. Staunton`s translation was the first in a European language and represents one of the first scientific products of modern Western relations with China. Founded in 1887, the Selden Society is an academic society and publishing house focused on English legal history, including early legal reports, court records, legal notebooks, legal treatises, precedents and practice books, and other original sources such as Selected Cases on Defamation to 1600, which offer cases in English and legal French. French Law, originally based on Anglo-Norman but heavily influenced by the Parisian French, was used in English courts from 1066 and continued for centuries.
The influence of legal French persists in today`s legal lexicon, as the source of the distinctive reverse syntax in expressions such as “attorney general.” The neü Layenspiegel is part of a long medieval “mirror” tradition, which offered guidance in moral, theological and legal questions. Originally published in 1509, this “new” edition was revised and published shortly after Tengler`s death in 1511. He took as his model Guillelmus Durantis Speculum iudiciale (The Legal Mirror) of the thirteenth century and the subject of its first three stages: persons, civil procedure and criminal procedure. Tengler, however, wrote for a less demanding readership, a mix of practitioners and non-lawyers. The enormous success of this collection of jurisprudence and practice, of which more than a dozen editions appeared in the sixteenth century alone, reflected the growth of popular literature and education in Germany at the time. In the 1830s, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and other Native American tribes constituted themselves as “nations,” concluded treaties with the United States, and drafted their own constitutions between 1830 and 1900. The Cherokees and Choctaw created legal institutions very similar to those in the United States. Constitutions and tribal laws were sometimes written in both tribal and English, as in the Chickasaw and Choctaw editions, or exclusively in the tribal language, as in this edition of Cherokee Law. First edition, bound in original plates with uncut pages.
The commentaries, published in four volumes, were the first comprehensive common law treatise in the early modern period, but accessible to a lay audience. Each volume deals with a specific area of law: personal rights, tort and property law, civil procedure and remedies, and criminal law and procedure. Together, they provide a methodological and rational overview of English common law and its development up to the mid-eighteenth century. Considered by some scholars to be “the most important legal treatise ever written in the English language,” commentaries have been the preeminent text on common law in England and America in the century since its publication and have served as the basis for common law in the developing American legal system. The Law Library has an invaluable collection of United Nations legal documents and other sources on the world organization, including the complete print collections of the United Nations Treaty Series (U.N.T.R.) and its predecessor, the League of Nations Treaty Series (N.T.S.). The U.N.T. contains more than 158,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties and subsequent acts in its binding language(s) and, where appropriate, a translation into English and French. This groundbreaking work on American legal history and jurisprudence grew out of a series of articles and lectures written by the lawyer, judge, and jurist of the Lowell Institute in Boston. The common law, which includes tort, property, contracts, and felonies, has a reputation for being “strange, difficult, confusing, and sometimes dazzling,” as Robert W. Gordon notes. After a distinguished career as a lawyer and justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Holmes was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, where he served for thirty years. John H.
Wigmore was a famous and respected lawyer, legal historian, and law professor. He was Dean of Northwestern University School of Law and a pioneer in the field of comparative law. Panorama was written as a popular survey of sixteen legal systems over the centuries and is based on Wigmore`s lectures at Northwestern. Despite its simplistic structure, this book went beyond its target lay audience and was well received by students and lawyers alike. It is a French translation of the draft Korean Penal Code of 1901, which, at the time of publication of this book, was still awaiting official approval from the Korean Grand Council. This code was largely based on the Qing Legal Code of China, and the book contains not only the translation, but also a comparative analysis of the Chinese legal code on which it is based and the Code of Indochina. The translator was a French lawyer who served as legal advisor to the Korean government and made important contributions to Korean legislation and legal education. IT Procurement Issues to Consider This guide explores IT procurement (or information technology procurement, technology procurement, or technology procurement), which describes the key steps in the IT procurement process, key contract documents, key legal and business issues, and some specific considerations related to cloud computing and open source software (OSS). It focuses on customer concerns, but also highlights some considerations for the vendor that are relevant to IT procurement. The specific issues of IT procurement and public procurement of information and communication technologies (ICT) are not dealt with here, but see Practical Notes: Public Procurement – Private Sector Considerations and Freedom of Information and Public Procurement. Since Ferdinand II.
In 1512, when the Burgos laws were passed to regulate the treatment of indigenous peoples, the Spanish crown had repeatedly tried to comply with America`s new legal requirements. While Castilian law formed the basis of private law in the New World, the different social, political and economic conditions in the colonies required that public law be created specifically for them. The first complete official edition was donated by the California Supreme Court Library. It is the first book given to the law school by Lloyd Robbins, and the first edition of Bishop William of Lyndwood`s collection of conciliar constitutions published by the Archbishops of Canterbury, beginning with Stephen Langton at the Council of Oxford (1222).