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Record Nr.

UNISA996247972003316

Autore

Gordley James

Titolo

The philosophical origins of modern contract doctrine / / James Gordley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon, , 2023

ISBN

1-383-01425-6

0-19-825664-7

0-19-102961-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

Clarendon law series

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

346/.02

Soggetti

Contracts - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p249-255. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas -- Roman law and the medieval jurists -- Synthesis -- Discontinuity in the natural law tradition -- The Anglo-American reception -- The nineteenth-century reformulation -- Liberalism and nineteenth-century contract law -- Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

The common law of England and the USA and the civil law of continental Europe have a similar doctrinal structure. This book argues that this structure was created in the 16th century in an attempt to synthesize Roman law and the moral philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas.