| Abstract: | The aim of this volume, written by eleven academics from South Africa, is to provide insights into the development of South African law. The book integrates political, social and economic history with traditional legal sources. Although the collection of essays has a bias towards private law, the concept has not been narrowly defined in the volume. Some areas traditionally described as commercial law are included and the interrelationship between public and private law is apparent from a number of contributions. Included are the following articles: The legal historian as subversive or: Killing the Capitoline geese (D.P. Visser); Ramus, mental habits and legal science (D. Van der Merwe); The judicial branch of government: an historical overview (H. Corder); From contract to administrative law: the changing face of South African labour law (D. Davis); An introduction to and some perspectives on the sources and development of Roman-Dutch insurance law (J.P. Van Niekerk); History of Roman-Dutch law of marriage from a socioeconomic perspective (B. Clark); Duplex dominion: the history and significance of the concept of divided ownership (A.J. Van der Walt and D.G. Kleyn); The étatisation of public property (J.D. Van der Vyver); Law, society and the individual: the limits of testation (M.J. De Waal); The roots of contract: an overview (D.J. Joubert); and The making of the law of delict: a mélange of sources (P.R. Spiller). |
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