5th Annual Polish-Spanish Conference on Roman Law: “Modern Application of the Roman Law Rules” Olsztyn 23 maja 2014 r.

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law

Ovid, the law and Roman society on abortion.

"She who first taught abortion techniques deserved to die by this assault of her own devising." Such is the apparently savage attack made by Ovid, of all writers, in, of all places, one of the Amores. 1 In view of the intense controversy now going on, it may be intriguing if not helpful to consider the Roman view or views on abortion and the legal and social background to Ovid's two poems touch...

study of the factors of roman-german legal system's impact on iranian modern law

due to the british hegemony of iran in both pre- and post-constitutional revolutionary periods (1906-1911), the iranian legal system was expected to be influenced by british common law following the establishment of the modern government after the revolution. but it did not happen for various legal and non-legal reasons. a major legal reason could be iranians’ long history of acquaintance with ...

5th International Conference on Trade, Business, Economics and Law

This paper has examined that relationship of institutional shareholdings with liquidity in 95 dividend paying and 100 non dividend paying firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2013. The results are consistent with the “Prudent Man” hypothesis, investment institutions are risk averse and prefer to invest in low volatile, dividend paying and liquid stocks. The study analyzed the imp...

novation in iranian law a comparative study of roman and french law

novation is originally a roman law institution which has influenced the legal system of western countries. in roman law the obligation was a legal personal relationship that changing one of its element resulted in dissolution of obligation and consequently, the transmission of obligation became impossible; therefore, the novation, seeking to achieve the transmission of debt and credit, was esta...