J. N. Adams and G. Averley, A Bibliography of Eighteenth-Century Legal Literature. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Avero Publications Ltd., 1982. Pp. 900. £220.

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-154
Author(s):  
James C. Oldham
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

The classical model of contract: the product of a revolution in legal thought?

Legal Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-532
Author(s):  
Warren Swain
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Proper Weight

Writing in the introduction to his new treatise on contract in 1826, Joseph Chitty observed that ‘Perhaps no branch of the jurisprudence of this country has of late years been more subject of judicial inquiry and decision than the Law of Contracts’. It is generally accepted that the so-called classical model of contract law, which remains influential into the present day, was created at this time. Ever since the subject first attracted sustained attention from legal historians in the 1970s, the driving forces of these developments have been contested. Some saw legal change as a product of economic and social factors. For others the reception of new ways of thinking and legal literature provided a more convincing explanation. What is not usually disputed is that there was a fundamental revolution in contract doctrine and literature in the nineteenth century. This assumption is open to challenge. It fails to give proper weight to the past. In fact these changes were deeply rooted in the eighteenth century and even earlier.

Grotius’s Impact on the Scandinavian Theory of Contract Law

Grotiana ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-87
Author(s):  
Sören Koch
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
The Will ◽  
Will Theory ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Negative Conclusion ◽  
Contractual Agreement

This article discusses to what extent the widely accepted hypotheses of Hugo Grotius’s crucial impact on the theory of contract law – also in Scandinavia – may be maintained or even positively confirmed. Although few direct references to the works of Grotius can be found in Scandinavian legal literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, it would be premature to draw a negative conclusion. An impact of Grotius’s thoughts may rather be demonstrated by thoroughly analysing patterns of argumentation concerning specific contractual topics both in legal literature and case law. The article provides the reader with necessary information on the institutional and intellectual preconditions for the reception of Grotius in the Scandinavian legal orders before discussing the impact of the ‘will-theory’ on the requirements of a legally binding contractual agreement in the works of selected influential legal scholars and in case law in more detail. The analysis confirms that Grotius’s work contributed substantially to shaping the intellectual framework in which the first contract law doctrines in Scandinavia evolved.

Roman Garrisons in the North of Britain

1932 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Eric Birley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The North ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Hadrian's Wall ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Since the antiquaries of the eighteenth century—Hunter, Gordon, and Horsley—identified the forts on Hadrian's Wall with the stations per lineam valli by means of inscriptions found in them, further epigraphic material has accumulated, as a result of which all the forts except those at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Rudchester, as far west as Birdoswald, have produced evidence of the regiments assigned by the Notitia Dignitatum to the stations Segedunum-(C)amboglanna. But, in a number of instances, there have also come to light inscriptions set up by regiments that do not occur in the Notitia, or that are placed elsewhere in that list; the purpose of the present paper is to consider the significance of these inscriptions.

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