Explaining tort and crime legal development across laws and legal systems 1850–2020 Explaining tort and crime legal development across laws and legal systems 1850–2020 , by Matthew Dyson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 448 pp, £95.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781107144866

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 (1825) 4 B & C 247, 255. 107 ER 1051, 1054.2 CG Addison, Wrongs and their Remedies (2nd edn, London 1864) 481, quoting Williams v Jones, T Hard 298, 301, 95 ER 193, 194 (KB 1727).3 (1853) 2 El & Bl 216, 118 ER 749.4 (1881) 6 QBD 333.5 WVH Rogers, Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort (16th edn, London 2002) § 12.30 436.6 Ibid § 12.35 441.7 Ibid § 4.6 74–75.8 Ibid § 18.5 630.9 London, 1887.10 Ibid 17 (‘the Roman conception of delict altogether supports … the conception that really appears to underlie the English law of torts’).11 Ibid.12 Ibid 21.13 Ibid 22–23.14 Friedrich Karl von Savigny, System des heutigen Römischen Rechts 2 (Berlin, 1840) § 82 (‘the will to commit a violation of the law’); Bernhard Windscheid, Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts 1 1(4th edn, Dusseldorf 1875) § 101 (the ‘will for the ensuing event’ (287) which the actor knows to be ‘unlawful’ (288–89)).15 ‘Of delicts and quasi-delicts’ is the title of the Code 3.4.2. On the meaning of the terms, see Jean-Baptiste Treilhard, ‘Présentation au Corps legislative, et exposé des motifs’ in PA Fenet, Recueil complet des travaux préparatoires du Code Civil (Paris 1827) 464, 467.16 Robert Pothier, Traité des obligations 1 (Paris 1761) no 116.17 CBM Toullier, Le droit civil français 11 (Paris 1846) no 113, 115 136–38.18 I III.13.2.19 Reinhard Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition (Juta 1990) 16–17.20 Toullier, Droit civil no 116, 148–49.21 Ibid 149 no 2, citing D 1.9.2.44-45 (‘qui prohibere potererit teneatur si non fecerit’); Prussian Code pt 1, tit 6, no 59 (‘celui qui souffre sciemment ce qu’il pouvait et devait empêcher, en rêpond comme si l’avait ordonné’); Jean Domat, Les lois civiles liv 2, tit 8, sect 4, no 8 (‘ceux qui, pouvant empêcher un dommage que quelque devoir les engageait de prevenir, y auront manqué, pourront en être tenus’).22 Ibid no 119 150.23 Ibid n 1 citing the Lex Aquilia, D 9.5.1.24 Zimmermann, Law of Obligations 1027–28.25 254 n 82, citing Toullier, Le droit civil français 11: nos 156–8.26 Ibid no 158 211.27 Ibid no 119 151.28 D 50.17.55.