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Transfers Of Property In Eleventh-Century Norman Law, William John Gallagher
Transfers Of Property In Eleventh-Century Norman Law, William John Gallagher
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Transfers of Property in Eleventh-Century Norman Law by Emily Zack Tabuteau
Social Research And The Use Of Medieval Criminal Records, Edward Powell
Social Research And The Use Of Medieval Criminal Records, Edward Powell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England by James Buchanan Given, and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt
Legal Techniques And Political Ideologies: A Comparative Study, Alexander H. Pekelis
Legal Techniques And Political Ideologies: A Comparative Study, Alexander H. Pekelis
Michigan Law Review
The problem with which we are going to deal is one of comparative law, a discipline probably even more illusory than legal science itself. A body of laws represents in itself neither a social reality nor a social ideal. One of the difficulties that every historian faces in trying to reconstruct a period of the past with the help of legal monuments is due to the great variety of relations existing between legal rules and social reality. So, e.g., legal monuments generally contain in an inextricable confusion at least two contradictory types of rules: rules which are a simple restatement …