Volume VI: Property and Trust | Chapter 2 (1976): Structural Variations in Property Law
Civil Law: Completed in June 1972
Jacob H. Beekhuis, Frederick H. Lawson, Viktor Knapp, Kwamena Bentsi-Enchill, J. Norman D. Anderson, J. Duncan M. Derrett, T. B. Smith
Jacob H. Beekhuis1
1. Introduction. – (1) Roman origins. – Since the civil law systems derive in great part from roman law, as it was put into force and interpreted in most of continental europe during the Middle Ages and in modern times until the nineteenth century, they are more or less influenced by roman law. That influence is partic…