Limitation and Prescription.
A Comparative Legal History.
Edited by Harry Dondorp Edited by David Ibbetson Edited by Eltjo J. H. Schrage
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(March 2019)
ISBN: 9783428156269
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Within both the Civil Law and the Common Law we find means of acquiring and losing rights, or freeing ourselves from obligations by the passage of time. The ratio thereof is twofold: (1) In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Sometimes it is said that, if a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example” and (2) A claim should not hang above the head of the debtor as if it were a Damocles’ sword, or on the words of Best CJ “long dormant claims have more cruelty than justice in them.” This ratio is and has been felt strongly in every jurisdiction, but legislation, case law and jurisprudence but the specifications thereof show substantial dissimilarities, notably between the Common Law and the Civil Law, even thus that in recent times several Law Commissions reported about future modifications and other jurisdictions enacted new legislation. This book gives the necessary historical background on a comparative basis.
Harry Dondorp, Eltjo Schrage, David Ibbetson
Introduction
Harry Dondorp
Limitation and Prescription in Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis
Emanuele Conte
Lapse of Time in Medieval Laws: Procedure, Prescription, Presumptions, Custom
Harry Dondorp
Prescription and Limitation in Medieval Canon Law
Paul Brand
Limitation and Prescription in the Early English Common Law (to c. 1307)
Sir John Baker
Prescriptive Customs in English Law 1300–1800
Neil Jones
Lapse of Time in Equity 1560–1660
David Ibbetson
Limitation and Prescription in Early-Modern England
Jan Hallebeek
Early Modern Scholasticism on Acquisitive and Extinctive Prescription
Andrew R. C. Simpson
Legal Learning and the Prescription of Rights in Scotland
Martin Schermaier
Contemporary Use of Roman Rules: Prescription and Limitation in the Usus Modernus Pandectarum
Mike Macnair
Length of Time and Related Equitable Bars 1660–1760
David Deroussin
Praescriptione Omnia Iura Tolluntur: Les Prescriptions dans l’Ancien Droit français
Joshua Getzler
Lord Tenterden’s 1832 Prescription Act: Why Was it Passed, and Was it a Failure?
David Deroussin
Le Droit Français des Prescriptions depuis 1804, ou l’impossible simplicité
Christian Hattenhauer
Prescription and Limitation in Germany and Austria from the late 18th Century to the 2002 Reform of the German Law of Limitation and Obligations
Pascal Pichonnaz
Limitation in Switzerland: a Comparative Account
Mike Macnair
English Limitation Reforms and Controversies 1934–2016
Harry Dondorp has been teaching Roman Law and Legal History at the Free University Amsterdam since 1979. He published notably on the history of Canon Law and in the field of the Comparative Legal History.
David Ibbetson has been Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge since 2000, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge since 2013. From 2009 until 2012 he served as the Chair of the Faculty of Law, Cambridge.
Eltjo Schrage retired as a Professor of Civil Law at the University of Amsterdam in 2010. He has been an honorary professor in the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa since 2007.
- Edited by Harry Dondorp
- Edited by David Ibbetson
- Edited by Eltjo J. H. Schrage
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