Magna Carta And The Roman Law Tradition

The Chaoulli Case: a two-tier Magna Carta?

There has been considerable speculation about the potential impact of the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment in Chaoulli v. Quebec. Even if those who are most friendly--or most hostile--to Canadian medicare are exaggerating the impact of the decision, its impact will be large. While the decision does not strike down any existing single-payer medicare system in any province, including Quebec's s...

Jus Tempus in the Magna Carta: The Sovereignty of Time in Modern Politics and Citizenship

............................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................................ IntheEnglish constitutional tradition, subjecthoodhas been primarily derived from two circumstances: place of birth and time of birth. People not born in th...

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...

The development and nature of the ordinary/extraordinary means distinction in the Roman Catholic tradition.

In the Roman Catholic tradition the nature of the ordinary/extraordinary means distinction is best understood in light of its historical development. The moralist tradition that reared and nurtured this distinction implicitly developed a set of general criteria to distinguish the extraordinary from the ordinary. These criteria, conjoined with the context within which they were understood, can p...