Western Europe
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Ancient Law
The geographic and civilizational region where the movement from status to contract is said to have advanced considerably.
In Western Europe the progress achieved in this direction has been considerable.
and the researches of Savigny have shown that in Western Europe the old Mancipatory Testament, with all its apparatus of conveyance, copper, and scales, continued to be the form in use far down in the Middle Ages.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The broader European region referenced as the scope of pre-Reformation religious consensus.
Before the Reformation, for example, the authority of the Church, and of the Papacy as its visible head, was generally admitted throughout Western Europe both by thinkers and by men of action.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Europe west of the former Roman Empire, used throughout as a comparative case.
Nothing which thus happened seems to me to be very unlike what would have happened in the legal history of Western Europe, if the Canonists had gained a complete ascendency over Common Lawyers and Civilians.
If the Roman Empire had merely transmitted its administrative system to Western Europe, and if it had not bequeathed to it a coherent body of codified secular law making considerable approach to completeness, it is very doubtful whether the general law of the West would not even now reflect a particular set of religious ideas as distinctly as the Hindu law reflects the sacerdotal conceptions of the Brahmans.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The broad European region whose transformation from Roman to feudal social order frames the passage's argument.
It was by them that the Western Europe of the Roman despotism was changed into the Western Europe of the feudal sovereignties.
Their place has been taken very generally in Western Europe by horses as beasts of plough, but the change was even there both gradual and comparatively modern;