"This volume is dedicated to the memory of Knut Wolfgang Nörr, who died on 15 January 2018 aged 83"--Page vii. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Mike Macnair. English limitation reforms and controversies 1934-2016 / Harry Dondorp -- Lapse of time in medieval laws: procedure, prescription, presumptions, custom / Emanuele Conte -- Prescription and limitation in medieval canon law / Harry Dondorp -- Limitation and prescription in the early English common law (to c. 1307) / Paul Brand -- Prescriptive customs in English law 1300-1800 / Sir John Baker -- Lapse of time in equity 1560-1660 / Neil Jones -- Limitation and prescription in early-modern England / David Ibbetson -- Early modern scholasticism on acquisitive and extinctive prescription / Jan Hallebeek -- Legal learning and the prescription of rights in Scotland / Andrew R.C. Simpson -- Contemporary use of Roman rules: prescription and limitation in the Usus Modernus Pandectarum / Martin Schermaier -- Length of time and related equitable bars 1660-1760 / Mike Macnair -- Praescriptione Omnia Iura Tolluntur: les prescriptions dans l'ancien droit français / David Deroussin -- Lord Tenterden's 1832 Prescription Act: why was it passed, and was it a failure? / Joshua Getzler -- Le droit français des prescriptions depuis 1804, ou l'impossible simplicité / David Deroussin -- Prescription and limitation in Germany and Austria from the late 18th century to the 2002 reform of the German law of limitation and obligations / Christian Hattenhauer -- Limitation in Switzerland: a comparative account / Pascal Pichonnaz -- English limitation reforms and controversies 1934-2016 / Mike Macnair.
Series:
Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History, 0935-1167 ; Band 33
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