The Traditional Jewish Law of Sale
Title | The Traditional Jewish Law of Sale PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Hebrew Union College Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1983-12-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0878201548 |
Rabbinic tradition is in large part a tradition of law and jurisprudence. This tradition of law comprehends fields as diverse as the law of evidence and the dietary regimen, as laws on credit and debt and the laws of ritual purity. It follows naturally that many, if not most, of the great works of rabbinical literature are law books, commentaries on the law, and collections of cases. The principal legal code, or restatement, still authoritative among traditional Jews, is the Shulhan Arukh, compiled by Joseph b. Ephraim Karo of Safed (1488-1575) and glossed by Moses Isserles of Cracow (1520-1572). This work, published in four volumes, provided the rabbinic jurist or magistrate, as well as the learned layman, with a concise review of the various areas of Jewish law that might come to his attention. One such area of traditional Jewish law was the laws of buying and selling and the laws of fraud in sales. This particular domain within traditional Jewish commercial law is surprisingly intelligible and fascinating for modern students of Jewish tradition. Buying and selling are just as much a part of the modern world as they were of past ages. Moreover, the student of legal history or comparative law will find that this rabbinical code on sales and fraud in sales provides, at a glance, a view of the strata of Jewish legal development from the ancient period to the sixteenth century. Among the matters treated in this code are the formation of the agreement to buy and sell, the concept of acquisition as it relates to various types of property, legal capacity, and the requirement of good faith. The chapters on fraud reflect the moral and ethical values of Jewish tradition which are always implicit, and often explicit, in the rules of Jewish civil, criminal, and commercial legal codes. The material is clearly of interest to modern students of business ethics. A synopsis of the law of sale prefaces the work. It underscores some of the main features of this area of the law and furnishes some terminology and analysis of the material. While this synopsis does note some points of contrast and comparison with Roman law and medieval church law, it is not intended as a detailed historical or comparative study. It serves principally to introduce the text itself and establish some useful lines of understanding and classification. The translation of the laws of sale and fraud presented here has been prepared with the utmost care and attention to the technical nuances of legal terminology in both modern and ancient law. Its apparatus of notes and references includes material on the history of the printing of this translated portion of the Jewish legal tradition.
The Traditional Jewish Law of Sale
Title | The Traditional Jewish Law of Sale PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph E. Karo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780608020884 |
The Jewish Law of Sale
Title | The Jewish Law of Sale PDF eBook |
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Release | 1950 |
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Jewish Law Annual
Title | Jewish Law Annual PDF eBook |
Author | Bertrand Jackson |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1987-03 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9783718604661 |
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jewish Law Annual (Vol 6)
Title | Jewish Law Annual (Vol 6) PDF eBook |
Author | Bertrand Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1134331894 |
First Published in 1987. This is Volume six of the annual published under the auspices of the Institute of Jewish Law of the Boston University School of Law. The symposium on the Philosophy of Jewish Law, which forms the main content of both this and the next issue, represents a major contribution to an area of investigation which has attracted increasing interest in recent years.
Jewish Law
Title | Jewish Law PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Jacobs |
Publisher | Behrman House, Inc |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780874412116 |
An introduction to halachah featuring selections from the basic sources--halachic midrashim Mishnah Jerusalem and Babylonian talmuds the Codes and the responsa--translated and interpreted for today's student.
Religion and International Law
Title | Religion and International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Mark W. Janis |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2004-02-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9047413407 |
One of the great tasks, perhaps the greatest, weighing on modern international lawyers is to craft a universal law and legal process capable of ordering relations among diverse people with differing religions, histories, cultures, laws, and languages. In so doing, we need to take the world's peoples as we find them and not pretend out of existence their wide variety. This volume, now available in paperback, builds on the eleven essays edited by Mark Janis in 1991 in The Influence of Religion and the Development of International Law, more than doubling its authors and essays and covering more religious traditions. Now included are studies of the interface between international law and ancient religions, Confucianism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as essays addressing the impact of religious thought on the literature and sources of international law, international courts, and human rights law.