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The Western Codification of Criminal Law
This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model’s actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes. The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.
Free Soil in the Atlantic World
Free Soil in the Atlantic World examines the principle that slaves who crossed particular territorial frontiers- from European medieval cities to the Atlantic nation states of the nineteenth century- achieved their freedom. Based upon legislation and judicial cases, each essay considers the legal origins of Free Soil and the context in which it was invoked: medieval England, Toulouse and medieval France, early modern France and the Mediterranean, the Netherlands, eighteenth-century Portugal, nineteenth-century Angola, nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba, and the Brazilian-Paraguay borderlands. On the one hand, Free Soil policies were deployed by weaker polities to attract worker-settlers; however, by the eighteenth century, Free Soil was increasingly invoked by European imperial centres to distinguish colonial regimes based in slavery from the privileges and liberties associated with the metropole. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.
A Companion to Latin American Legal History
This comprehensive volume offers fresh insights on Latin American and Caribbean law before European contact, during the colonial and early republican eras and up to the present. It considers the history of legal education, the legal profession, Indigenous legal history, and the legal history concerning Africans and African Americans, other enslaved peoples, women, immigrants, peasants, and workers. This book also examines the various legal frameworks concerning land and other property, commerce and business, labor, crime, marriage, family and domestic conflicts, the church, the welfare state, constitutional law and rights, and legal pluralism. It serves as a current introduction for those ne...
A Posse - Estudo Sobre o seu Objecto e Extensão. Perspectiva Histórica e de Direito Português
O presente trabalho aborda o instituto da posse no tocante a dois dos seus aspectos centrais: - O objecto; - A extensão. O tratamento do tema inicia-se na investigação histórica pertinente e vai até à Idade Contemporânea. Sem o conhecimento histórico o Direito vigente não pode ser compreendido e correctamente aplicado e tudo o que existe são construções semânticas sem valor científico e jurídico. Não obstante centrado nos dois aspectos assinalados, procede-se neste estudo à revisão das teorias tradicionais da posse, superando as duas construções dominantes (subjectivismo e objectivismo) num quadro em que se prescinde do elemento subjectivo (o animus), mantendo-se, no entanto, a herança do romanismo nos traços que permaneceram no regime jurídico da posse constante do código civil de 1966.
Surprise Heirs: Illegitimacy, patrimonial rights, and legal nationalism in Luso-Brazilian inheritance, 1750-1821
This book situates the changing patrimonial rights of illegitimate offspring in Brazil within a system of Luso-Brazilian heirship that operated during the final half century of Portuguese colonial rule. Besides offering the first detailed explanation of how the rules of inheritance applied to people born outside wedlock, the book’s focus on illegitimacy and patrimony provides a new perspective for assessing how family formation figured broadly in late colonial Brazil’s social evolution. Innovatively integrating legal history with recent research on the post-1750 history of the family in Brazil, the book reveals the significance of customary marriage and consensual cohabitation, clerical concubinage, concealed paternity, and foundling wheels for Latin American social organization. By reformulating the private law of family and inheritance, Portuguese legal nationalism transformed the juridical meaning of bastardy and anticipated the emergence of the “surprise heir,” who figured so prominently in imperial Brazil’s courtroom dramas and novels.
O Fiador Dos Brasileiros
Faz da trajetória de Antônio P. Rebouças a porta de entrada para se compreender o mundo dos advogados no século XIX, suas ligações com a política e com os grandes debates de seu tempo : a cidadania, o fim da escravidão e a constituição de direitos civis para africanos e seus descendentes.
História do Direito - 3a Edição
«História do Direito» é uma introdução histórica ao Direito, atenta às novas tendências da investigação e da cultura jurídica, numa perspectiva pósdisciplinar. Fiel ao rigor historiográfico clássico, abre-se criticamente a outros desafios: novos saberes e métodos, novas racionalidades e estilos. E dirige-se tanto aos estudantes de Direito, como aos que cursam História e outras Ciências Sociais, Filosofia, e afins. Além de procurar ser legível pelo público culto e interessado. Não se quedando pela História jurídica nacional, enquadra-a nas grandes correntes europeias, recuando ao Direito Romano, e não deixando de referir os primórdios normativos orientais e pré-clássicos. Na História do Direito Português, assume uma orientação mais monográfica, em demanda das raízes e fundamentos das nossas Liberdades. Termina, naturalmente, com o Liberalismo e o Constitucionalismo moderno, momento em que o génio jurídico nacional se funde e metamorfoseia na tendência geral da Liberdade, Igualdade e Fraternidade. Mas o livro chega aos nossos dias, à Constituição Europeia e à ameaça de concretização do Brexit.
