Subjects:

Legal History

Contents:

Part 1
1. Introduction
2. The Legal Legacy of the Past
3. The Legal Legacy of the Past (cont)
4. The Earliest Literature and the Codes
5. The Early Codes of the Past
6. The Central Codes of the Past
7. The Late Codes of the Past
8. The Late Codes of the Past (cont)
9. The Early Law of India
10. The Roman Twelve Tables
11. The Law of the Hebrews
12. The Hebrew Code Part 2
13. The Food Gatherers
14. Early Hunters, Agriculturists and Pastoralists
15. Agriculturists, Hunters and Pastoralists of the Second Grade
16. Cattle Keepers
17. Cattle Keepers
18. Cattle Keepers
19. The Recent Peoples of the Early Codes
20. The Recent Peoples of the Early Codes
21. Trial by Ordeal in the Early Codes
22. The Recent Peoples of the Central Codes
23. The Recent Peoples of the Central Codes
24. The Recent Peoples of the Central Codes
25. The Recent Peoples of the Late Codes
26. The Recent Peoples of the Late Codes
27. The Recent Peoples of the Late Codes
28. The Recent Peoples of the Late Codes
29. The Recent Peoples of the Late Codes

This book is a study of the beginnings of law and the 'primitive' stages of its development, from the first rudimentary rules of conduct to the codes of the legal systems. Its scope extends to both cultures and legal systems from the ancient and medieval past: those of the Babylonians and Assyrians, Hittites, Hebrews, Romans, Hindus, English and other German peoples, and those of Africa, Australia and America. Correlating early economic and legal development, the book illustrates how laws change with the development of material culture. Originally published in 1971.