Ancient Legal Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Legal Thought write by Larry May. This book was released on 2019. Ancient Legal Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--
Ancient Legal Thought
Ancient Legal Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Legal Thought write by Larry May. This book was released on 2019-07-31. Ancient Legal Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--
Ancient Law
Ancient Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Law write by Henry Sumner Maine. This book was released on 1906. Ancient Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law write by J. G. A. Pocock. This book was released on 1987-04-24. The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.
Ancient Law
Ancient Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Law write by Henry Sumner Maine, Sir. This book was released on 2012-01-18. Ancient Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The theory of legal development propounded in this volume has been generally accepted; but it has been thought that, in his Fifth Chapter on Primitive Society and Ancient Law, the Author has not done sufficient justice to investigations which appear to show the existence of states of society still more rudimentary than that vividly described in the Homeric lines quoted, and ordinarily known as the Patriarchal State. The Author has mentioned accounts by contemporary observers of civilisations less advanced than their own, as capable of affording peculiarly good evidence concerning the rudiments of society; and, in fact, since his work was first published, in 1861, the observation of savage or extremely barbarous races has brought to light forms of social organisation extremely unlike that to which he has referred the beginnings of law, and possibly in some cases of greater antiquity. The subject is, properly speaking, beyond the scope of the present work, but he has given his opinion upon the results of these more recent inquiries in a paper on Theories of Primitive Society, published in a volume on Early Law and Custom.
