The philosophical origins of modern contract doctrine / / James Gordley
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| Autore: |
Gordley James
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| Titolo: |
The philosophical origins of modern contract doctrine / / James Gordley
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Clarendon, , 2023 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 346/.02 |
| Soggetto topico: | Contracts - History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Philosophical origins of modern contract doctrine |
| ISBN: | 1-383-01425-6 |
| 0-19-825664-7 | |
| 0-19-102961-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996247972003316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Clarendon law series.
Oxford scholarship online.