Lepaulle Appropriated

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Popovici ◽  
Lionel D Smith
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Municipal Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
Droit International

This chapter discusses the English translation of the first chapter of Pierre Lepaulle's 1932 book Traité théorique et pratique des trusts en droit interne, en droit fiscal et en droit international (A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Trusts in Municipal Law, Tax Law, and International Law). The book articulates Lepaulle's vision of the common law trust as an affected patrimony. His goal was to explain the common law trust to a civilian audience, using the vocabulary and the conceptual tools of the civil law in its French manifestation. The chapter first provides a background on the translation project, which involved appropriating Lepaulle, and the author before presenting the translation. It emphasises the significance of Lepaulle's work to the notions of trust and patrimony as well as to civil law in French and to private law more generally, including the common law.

Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Baker
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

This book contains selected cases, statutes, and a few other texts, relating to the history of English private law between 1194 and 1750. (Cases after 1750 are mostly available in the English Reports.) It may be used as a companion to the textbooks written by the compilers, but the purpose is different from that of a textbook. The original materials are here allowed to speak for themselves, without commentary. Most of them are reports of cases, which show how the common law evolved through argument. The losing arguments help to explain those which prevailed, and it is often instructive to know what was not argued. Most of the reports were written in law French, but they are here given in English translation, corrected or augmented from manuscripts, together with notes from the enrolled Latin records. Much of this material is not available in English translation elsewhere. The second impression (2019) contains corrections and additions.

European Private Law: Moving From a Closed to an Open System of Proprietary Rights

2001 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-396
Author(s):  
J H Dalhuisen
Keyword(s):  
Open System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
Lex Mercatoria

This article considers the denationalisation ofprivate law across both Civil Law and Common Lawjurisdictions in Europe. It looks in particular at systems ofproprietary rights and the demands currently placedupon them by commercial logic and practice. As the basic tenets ofownership are reformulated at transnational level in respect of commerce, trade, andfinance, greaterflexibility may be required of the Civil Law. In this connection, the conditional and temporary ownership notions offered by both the Civil and the Common Law may make a contribution to the development ofthe modern Lex Mercatoria.

A Matter of Interpretation: Constructing and Interpreting Commercial Contracts under the Common Law and the Convention on the International Sale of Goods

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Gordon Wade
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
International Private Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
International Sale Of Goods ◽  
Contractual Obligations

Contractual disputes concerning interpretation can be the most intractable of all contractual disputes and their outcome is notoriously difficult to predict. The interpretation of contradictory or ambiguous contractual provisions may often be necessary in order to determine, inter alia, the effect of the parties’ actions upon the performance of the contract and what the substantive contractual obligations actually are. Contractual interpretation in civil law and common law jurisdictions proceeds from fundamentally different perspectives, particularly when viewed in light of a recognised international private law convention, the cisg. Comparing and contrasting the common law and the cisg shows the latter to be the product of a diplomatic conference comprising 62 States and eight international organisations and not a series of ancient pronouncements of English judges who developed commercial law through 19th century sensibilities. The cisg and the common law are, however, not poles apart but the cisg was born because commercial trading, commercial agreements and the parties involved have become increasingly internationalised, complex and sophisticated.

Beware the Asset Protection Trust

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Spivack
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Asset Protection ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
The Common ◽  
Trust Law ◽  
Legislative Approval

AbstractCivil law regimes in Europe have been cautiously open to the common law trust for commercial purposes, and to some forms of the private trust as well. This openness indicates that the time may be right to issue a warning to civil lawyers about the recent proliferation of highly problematic forms of the trust in the U. S., and to offer an explanation of the dysfunction which allowed these trusts to win legislative approval. Civil law may be less amenable to these forms of trust for reasons of social policy and legal philosophy as expressed in foundational legal texts. Recent changes to EU trust law and to French and Dutch tax law indicate that this may be the case. This article discusses these new trust forms and discusses some elements of civil law which, at least from a common lawyer’s perspective, offer some resistance to them.

scholarly journals Du Maintien des Appels a la Cour Supreme du Canada en Matiere de Droit Civil

1969 ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Gérald A. Beaudoin
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Common ◽  
Le Canada ◽  
Article Analyse

L'auteur de cet article analyse la question du maintien des appels en droit civil la Cour Supr&me. Dans le contexte fSdSral canadien, il se declare favorable au maintien de ces appels. II trouve plus d'avantages que de disavantages. Le Canada ayant deux systdmes de droit privi, il convient que le plus haut tribunal du pays se prononce en ces matidres il s'agit d'une richesse pour notre pays. 11 moyen d'assurer la purete" de Vun et de Vautre systdme. The author of this article analyses the question of the retention of the civil law appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada. He is in favour of such appeals in our federation. We have in Canada two private law systemss one inspired from the Common Law of England and the other from "le droit civil" of France. It is appro priate for our highest tribunal to render judgments in both systems. This is great advantage for our country. Steps may be taken to assure the purity of both systems.

3. The relations of international and national law

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-102
Author(s):  
James Crawford
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Common ◽  
International Systems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Flexible Instruments

This chapter explores the relationship between international and national law, discussing both the common law tradition and the civil law tradition. It suggests that each system is supreme in its own field; neither has hegemony over the other. And yet any generalities offered can only provide a background to the complex relations between the national and international systems. Three factors operate. The first is organizational: to what extent are the organs of states ready to apply rules of international law internally and externally? The second factor is the difficulty of proving particular rules of international law. Third, courts, national and international, will often be concerned with the question of which is the appropriate system to apply to particular issues arising. The question of appropriateness emphasizes the distinction between organization, that is, the character of the jurisdiction as ‘national’ or ‘international’, and the character of the rules of both systems as flexible instruments for dealing with disputes and regulating non-contentious matters.

Trusts and Patrimonies

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
The Common

This book explores how the private law concepts of trust and patrimony interact in various jurisdictions, with a view to advancing the understanding of the trust as a fundamental legal concept. It comprises new and previously published papers written by distinguished comparative law scholars. Focusing on the private law of England, Scotland, France, Quebec and the Netherlands, this book investigates whether the common law trust could be understood as a civil law patrimony by appropriation, and whether civil law and mixed traditions could create local versions of the common law trust using patrimony as the main conceptual building block.

Craftsmanship in International Law

1956 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Wilfred Jenks
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
Critical Phases ◽  
City State

During critical phases in the development of a legal system the quality of the craftsmanship which practitioners of the law bring to its service can have a decisive influence on the process of development and on the whole texture of the legal system resulting from that process of development. So it was when the great civilians transformed the law of an overgrown city state into the law of an imperial commonwealth; so it was when the glossators laid the foundations of the modern civil law; so it was when the Bench and Bar of England created the common law; so it is today in the case of international law.

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