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Page 163 of 469

  • The Law of Taxation in a European Environment

  • John Tiley
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / November 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 451-473
    Print publication:
    November 1992

  • Lacking both the history and the inspiration of predecessors I shall begin, as Professor Stein did, with the conversation between Goethe and Eckermann in which Goethe is said to have likened the Roman civil law to a duck; “sometimes it is visible swimming prominently on the surface of the water; at other times it is hidden diving among the depths; but always it is there”.

  • Personal Actions in the High Court of Battle Abbey 1450–1602

  • J.H. Baker
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / November 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 508-529
    Print publication:
    November 1992

  • The relationship between the jurisdictions of local courts and central courts in late-medieval and early-modern England remains largely unexplored. It is nevertheless important to an understanding of the development of the common law, because of the prevailing notion that the great increase in litigation in the royal courts in the early Tudor period was connected with a decline in the use made of local courts. A massive transfer of business to the centralised royal courts might have affected the common law in ways other than the purely numerical, in that it could have brought a reception of legal ideas and remedies already well known out in the country. On that footing, the appearance of new kinds of action in the central courts at this period may represent transfers of jurisdiction rather than changes in legal thinking.

  • Legislating the Transcendental: Von Hirsch's Proportionality

  • Nigel Walker
  • Journal:
    The Cambridge Law Journal / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / November 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 January 2009, pp. 530-537
    Print publication:
    November 1992

  • In 1897 the Indiana House of Representatives was persuaded by a mathematician (of sorts) to entertain a bill “introducing a new mathematical truth”. The new truth was a method, or more precisely methods, for computing the value of π. Since π is a transcendental number the methods could at best have achieved an approximation. In fact they yielded several inaccurate values, one as wild as 4. The legislators were doubtful enough to refer the bill to a committee (the Committee on Canals) and, when this reported favourably, to the Committee on Temperance. Eventually they had the sense to defer it sine die.

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