Contents

List of contributors                                                                                 page ix

Foreword: Peter Stein, Regius Professor of Civil Law in the

University of Cambridge, 1968-1993                                                       xi

List of abbreviations                                                                                       xii

¹          The Roman law tradition                                                                             1

DAVID IBBETSON AND ANDREW LEWIS

²            Labeo and the fraudulent slave                                                                 15

ALAN RODGER

³            Doing and causing to be done                                                                  32

PETER BIRKS

⁴             The danger of definition: contrectatio and appropriation                      54

DAVID IBBETSON

⁵             Going to the fair - Jacques de Revigny on possession                            73

WILLIAM M.

⁶             Bembo giureconsulto?                                                                             98

MICHAEL H.

⁷             Gentilis and the interpretatio duplex                                                      104

J. L. BARTON

^{color=black face="Times New Roman">8}             lus gentium in the practice of the Court of Admiralty                            119

around 1600

ALAIN WIJFFELS

⁹             Stair’s title‘Of Liberty and Servitude’                                                    135

JOHN D. FORD

¹⁰              The actio communi dividundo in Roman and Scots law                        159

GEOFFREY MACCORMACK

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¹¹              Sale and transfer of title in Roman and Scots law                                182 DAVID JOHNSTON

¹²              ‘What Marcellus says is against you’: Roman law and                         199

Common law

ANDREW LEWIS

¹³              Audi et alteram partem·, a limit to judicial activity                              209

DAAN ASSER

Index of sources                                                                                             224

Index of names and subjects                                                                          229