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1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Series |
Legal History Library ; v.66 |
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Legal history library.
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Codification -- Introduction -- In Search of a Definition of the Civil Code -- Methodology -- Bibliography -- Introduction to Part 1. Contextualizing Codification -- Nineteenth-Century Codification-Paradigm Shifts -- Civil Codes in a Global Context -- Codification in the US Context -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1 Not a Movement, but a Discussion-the National Codification Framework -- 1.1 Grasping the Common Law |
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1.1.1 Common Law versus Rationalization Science -- 1.1.2 Archaisms within the Common Law -- 1.1.3 The Uncertainty of Common Law Rules -- 1.1.4 A Common Law of Uncertain Shape -- 1.2 Emancipation from Common Law -- 1.2.1 Liberation from English Legacy -- 1.2.2 Codification as Liberation from the Legal Profession -- 1.3 Codifier Jeremy Bentham and the United States -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks: Was There an American Codification Movement? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Development of Private Law Codification in the US States -- 2.1 The Most Famous US Civil Codes: the Civil Codes of Louisiana |
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2.1.1 The Survival of Civil Law in Louisiana -- 2.1.1.1 Louisiana, the Civil Law State -- 2.1.1.2 The 1808 Digest, the First US Civil Code -- 2.1.2 The Evolution of the Civil Codes of Louisiana during the Nineteenth Century -- 2.2 Common Law Civil Codes in Nineteenth-Century United States -- 2.2.1 The States of Georgia and New York: One Year, Two Civil Codes, Two Models -- 2.2.1.1 A Successful Codification Compilation: the Code of Georgia -- 2.2.1.2 An Attempt of Codification Innovation: the Civil Code of New York -- 2.2.2 The Afterlives of the Civil Code of New York |
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2.2.2.1 The Unanimous Adoption of a Revised Civil Code of New York in California -- 2.2.2.2 The Model of the Civil Code of New York in the Dakota Territory -- 2.2.2.3 The Continuity of the Civil Code after the Division of Dakota -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 Creating a Fertile Ground for Codification -- 3.1 Official Legal Justification behind Codification -- 3.2 State Institutions as Factors Influencing Codification -- 3.2.1 The Impact of the Colonial Tradition -- 3.2.2 The Direct Link between Codification and the Age of the State -- 3.2.3 Civil Codes and Political Parties |
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3.3 Population Migration Patterns and Civil Codes -- 3.4 No Civil Code without a Man -- 3.4.1 The Civil Codes: a Fuel for Dispute between Influential Men -- 3.4.2 The Civil Codes, Legal Tools Advocated by Individual Men -- 3.4.3 The Field Network -- 3.5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Inside the US Civil Codes -- 4.1 The Sources of Nineteenth-Century US Civil Codes -- 4.1.1 The Civil Codes of Louisiana -- 4.1.2 The Sources of a Code Like No Other, the Code of Georgia -- 4.1.3 Sources of the Civil Code of New York and Its Heirs |
| Summary |
Unveiling the history of the 19th-century civil codes in the USA, this book examines their origin stories, circulation, and usage in the different states that implemented them |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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4.1.3.1 Sources of the Civil Code of New York-the Common Law Code Reference |
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Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004689978 |
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9004689974 |
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