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Roman-Dutch law (Dutch: Rooms-Hollands recht, Afrikaans: Romeins-Hollandse reg) is an uncodified, scholarship-driven, and judge-made legal system based on Roman law as applied in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries. As such, it is a variety of the European continental civil law or ius commune.
They are thought to be ancestors of the later Saxons, and apparently only held a small part of the modern Netherlands in Roman times. The Frisiabones, who Pliny also counted as a people living in Gallia Belgica, to the south of the delta. They probably therefore lived in the north of North Brabant, perhaps stretching into Gelderland and South ...
Professor Sirks's research interests span civil law, European private law, Roman law and papyrology. [3] He has published work on a variety of subjects related to law, papyrology, and the ancient world, including archaic Roman law, matters of classical private law, the administrative and public law of the later Roman Empire and the reception of ...
Before efforts at unification, almost every region and borough in the Netherlands had its own law. Local Roman-Dutch law borrowed heavily from the civilian ius commune, particularly with respect to the law of obligations and in the practice of written codes. [2]: 228 However, no universal written code existed before the 19th century. Many ...
In common law, the doctrine of reception (properly, reception of the common law of England in a colony) refers to the process in which the English law becomes applicable to a British Crown Colony, or protectorate. In Commentaries on the Laws of England (Bk I, ch.4, pp 106–108), Sir William Blackstone described the doctrine as follows:
But the reception of Roman law at the end of the 15th century and its integration into what became known as Roman-Dutch law provided a new legal framework that would make the introduction and regulation of chattel slavery outside Dutch territory easier in later years. [4]
Law of the Netherlands Antilles (3 C, 1 P) H. Law of the Holy Roman Empire (7 C, 60 P) L. Legal history of the Dutch Republic (5 P) R. ... Roman-Dutch law; T. Treaty ...
In 1673 he was made professor of law at Utrecht University. From 1680 to his death he was a professor and the chair of law at Leiden, being twice elected as rector. [1]: 327 He was a deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church and later worked for the Church as an accountant. He died in Utrecht. [2]