Sohm
historical figure · 3 works · 32 mentions · 42 anchored passages
Rudolph Sohm · Professor Sohm
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Modern jurist cited by the editor on restrictions of testamentary freedom.
Cf Sohm, § 113.
Sohm, p.
(As to bonorum possessio intestati cf.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Scholar credited with illuminating early Teutonic property history.
but the re-examination of the written evidence respecting ancient Teutonic life and custom proceeds without intermission, and incidentally much light has been thrown on the early history of property by the remarkable work of Sohm (‘Fränkische Reichs-und Gerichtsverfassung’).
Some such system as that represented by the Irish Tanistry belonged probably at one time to all the tribal communities which overran the Roman Empire, but no precise assertion can be made as to the stage in their history at which it began to be modified, especially since Sohm’s investigations (in his ‘Fränkische Reichs-und Gerichtsverfassung’) have shown us how considerably the social organisation …
The power of seizing a man’s property extrajudicially in satisfaction of your demand was, as Professor Sohm justly remarks, a sort of two-edged sword.
Ancient Law
Author of Institutes on Roman law, translated into English by Ledlie.
Greenidge have made excellent provision of various kinds both for beginners and for advanced students, and Sohm’s Institutes are accessible in Mr.