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200 10$aSociety and legal change$b[electronic resource] /$fAlan Watson ; foreword by Paul Finkelman
205   $a2nd ed.
210   $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2001
215   $a1 online resource (169 p.)
300   $aOriginally published: Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press, 1977. With new preface by the author.
311   $a1-56639-920-3 
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Foreword by Paul Finkelman; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Roman Law: the System of Contracts; Chapter 3: Roman Law: Patria Potestas; Chapter 4: Roman Law: Further Points; Chapter 5: English Law: Real Property;  Tenure and Registration; Chapter 6: English Law: Libel and Slander; Chapter 7: Wider Perspectives; Chapter 8: Legal Scaffolding; Chapter 9: Legal Transplants; Chapter 10: Causes of Divergence; Chapter 11: Some Conclusions; Chapter 12: Study of Legal Development; Index
330   $aIn this first U.S. edition of a classic work of comparative legal scholarship, Alan Watson argues that law fails to keep step with social change, even when that change is massive. To illustrate the ways in which law is dysfunctional, he draws on the two most innovative western systems, of Rome and England, to show that harmful rules continue for centuries. To make his case, he uses examples where, in the main, ""the law benefits no recognizable group or class within the society (except possibly lawyers who benefit from confusion) and is generally inconvenient or positively harmful to s
606   $aSociological jurisprudence
606   $aLaw$zGreat Britain
606   $aRoman law
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