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The Javanese Way of Law
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ISBN: 9048541891 9789048541898 9789462989337 9462989338 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam

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The author's investigation of early-modern Javanese law reveals that judicial authority does not come from the contents of legal titles or juridical texts, but from legal maxims and variations thereof. A century and a half ago Simon Keyzer, a recognized scholar of Javanese law, noted that understanding of that law is dependent upon a grasp of such pithy expressions, which provide the key to the whole body of suits. (*Preface*, C.F. Winter, *Javaansche Zamenspraken*, 1858, which examines hundreds of *sloka*, the majority of which are directed to prevailing legal practice).Drawing upon the contents of 18th century Javanese legal texts, the present work builds upon Keyzer's and Winter's references to '*sloka*-phenomena', namely *sloka* proper (maxims) and its derivatives *sinalokan* (that made of *sloka*), *aksara* here meaning legal principles, and *prakara* (matter, case). These are usually conveyed in vignettes illustrating their function and as a group, constitute the essence of traditional Javanese written law.


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Doubt in Islamic law
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ISBN: 9781107080997 9781139953054 9781107440517 1107080991 1322560927 131621205X 1316191702 1316189864 1139953052 1107440513 1316206505 1316210200 1316208354 1316204707 1316202860 9781316204702 9781316206508 9781316208359 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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This book considers an important and largely neglected area of Islamic law by exploring how medieval Muslim jurists resolved criminal cases that could not be proven beyond a doubt, calling into question a controversial popular notion about Islamic law today, which is that Islamic law is a divine legal tradition that has little room for discretion or doubt, particularly in Islamic criminal law. Despite its contemporary popularity, that notion turns out to have been far outside the mainstream of Islamic law for most of its history. Instead of rejecting doubt, medieval Muslim scholars largely embraced it. In fact, they used doubt to enlarge their own power and to construct Islamic criminal law itself. Through examination of legal, historical, and theological sources, and a range of illustrative case studies, this book shows that Muslim jurists developed a highly sophisticated and regulated system for dealing with Islam's unique concept of doubt, which evolved from the seventh to the sixteenth century.


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Mélanges en hommage à Georges Vandersanden : promenades au sein du droit européen
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ISBN: 9782802726166 2802726161 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bruxelles : Bruylant,

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Georges Vandersanden, par les fonctions qu’il a exercées et les vocations qu’il a suscitées chez ses étudiants, mérite amplement de se voir offrir cet ouvrage en hommage consacré aux domaines principaux qui ont marqué sa carrière : le droit européen (général et matériel) et la fonction publique communautaire. Professeur émérite de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, pionnier de l’enseignement du droit européen, souvent invité à s’exprimer devant les auditoires d’universités étrangères, avocat dévoué à la cause de ses clients, conseiller d’Etat à son heure, Georges Vandersanden est surtout un homme aux qualités humaines exceptionnelles. Si cet ouvrage qui lui rend hommage se veut principalement scientifique, il transparaît dans les contributions de chacun la reconnaissance et l’attachement des auteurs à la personnalité de Georges Vandersanden. Certains de ses collègues – mais aussi amis – ont même décidé de s’éloigner quelque peu du droit pour parler de l’Homme qu’il est, dans une rubrique plus personnelle intitulée « Clins d’yeux ». Le lecteur pourra savourer au fil des pages les réflexions personnelles des auteurs – tous éminents spécialistes - touchant des sujets du droit européen généralement proches de l’actualité, alimentées bien souvent par quelques touches émanant des nombreux articles scientifiques que le jubilaire a rédigés tout au long de a carrière…. Ce qui donne un espace de dialogue scientifique extrêmement riche, qui permettra au lecteur d’approfondir ses connaissances d’un droit européen constamment en mouvance.

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