A History of Private Law in Europe
Subtitle: with particular reference to Germany
Contributors: Reinhard Zimmermann (Foreword); Tony Weir (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 25, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780198258612
First sentence: The legal systems of Europe originated in the impact on the vital Romano-German societies in the early Middle Ages of the three great forces of order bequeathed to them by late antiquity: the organizational structure of the Western Roman Empire or what remained of it, the Roman Church, and the school of the late ancient period.