Negligence

The Comparative Legal History of the Law of Torts. Edited by Eltjo J. H. Schrage. This book compares the legal history of Negligence, in other words: this collection of 12 essays is devoted to the comparative legal history of liability for unintended harm from the Middle Ages onwards. This work aims at a dynamic comparison of the similar legal problems concerning negligence and the different solutions given to those problems in the various legal Systems. Contents: Inhalt: E. J. H. Schrage, Negligence. A comparative and historical introduction to a legal concept - J. H. Baker, Trespass, Case, and the Common Law of Negligence 1500-1700 - J. Hallebeek, Negligence in Medieval Roman Law - H. Dondorp, Crime and Punishment. Negligentia for the canonists and moral theologians - R. Feenstra, Grotius' doctrine of liability for negligence: its origin and its influence in Civil Law countries until modern codifications - P. Birks, Negligence in the Eighteenth Century Common Law - D. J. Ibbetson, The Tort of Negligence in the Common Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - H. L. MacQueen / W. D. H. Sellar, History of Negligence in Scots Law - B. Auzary-Schmaltz, Liability in Tort in France before the Code Civil: The Origins of Art. 1328 ff. Code Civil - W. Ernst, Negligence in 19th Century Germany - P. Mossler, The discussion on general clause or numerus clausus during the preparation of the German Civil Code - E. J. H. Schrage, Negligence in the discussion during the preparation of the Dutch Civil Code of 1838. 399 Seiten, broschiert (Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History; Band 22/Duncker & Humblot 2001) schwarze Filzstiftstriche auf Schnitt