Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. A Note on Names and Book Titles xii
5. List of Contributors xiii
6. 1 Law Reports of the Parliament of Flanders and their Authority in the Parliament’s Practice 1
7. 2 Paradigms of Authority in the College of Justice in Scotland 29
8. 3 Legal Authorities in Castilian Courts’ Practice: Decisiones and Consilia to Study the Arbitrium Iudicis 50
9. 4 Law Reporting, Authority and Precedent: the Common Law Paradigm 84
10. 5 Legal Authorities in the Making of Portuguese Private Law: Emphyteusis and Majorat in Practical Literature 98
11. 6 Iura scripta and Operae iurisperitorum in Municipal Courts of the Kingdom of Poland (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) 122
12. 7 Under the Legal Authority of the Senate of Milan (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) 137
13. 8 The Imperial Chamber Court and the Development of the Law in the Holy Roman Empire 150
14. 9 Legal Authorities in the Seventeenth-Century Swedish Empire 168
15. 10 The Parliament of Paris and the Making of the Law at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century 184
16. 11 Legal Fragmentation in the Dutch Republic During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 202
17. 12 Law Reports as Legal Authorities in Early Modern Belgian Legal Practice 222
18. Bibliography 245
19. Index 296