Puchta
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the eminent German jurist Puchta
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Nineteenth-century jurist cited as authority on the basis of the Roman distinction between jurisdictional and judicial terms.
but at Rome the distinction rested on the difference between proceedings in jure and in judicio.
(According to Puchta, usucapion was always unavailing against Quorum bonorum, and the effect of the Sc.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
German jurist whose interpretive doctrine on reconciling law and usage is criticised in the passage.
and Professor Bogišić dwells on the destructiveness of a well-known doctrine of the eminent German jurist, Puchta, that, where a law and an usage are at conflict, the same rules of interpretation should be applied in harmonising them which are employed to reconcile two contradictory provisions of law.