How Long to Read A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View
By Robert Joseph Pothier
How Long Does it Take to Read A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View?
It takes the average reader 12 hours and 13 minutes to read A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View by Robert Joseph Pothier
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Description
Translated by Francois-Xavier Martin. Originally published: NewBern, N.C.: Martin & Ogden, 1802. 2 vols. in 1 book. xii (iii-xii new introduction), xii], 364; ix], 315, 1] pp. With a new introduction by Warren M. Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans and Bicentennial Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Reprint of the rare New Bern edition. In the decades before the Civil War this classic treatise was required reading for practitioners, scholars and law students. Martin, an attorney and printer in New Bern, North Carolina, later a distinguished lawyer in Louisiana, gained distinction for this translation. This treatise was an important influence on British and American contract law. Marvin quotes and endorses an assessment by Luther Cushing that includes the following remark by one of Pothier's earlier editors, Andr Dupin: " Pothier on Obligations] is not only a good book of law, but an excellent book on morals; a work of all countries, of all nations; a book, to which antiquity can present to rival but the Offices of Cicero." John Gage Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 578. "The Treatise on Obligations was soon recognized as a major contribution to legal science."--David M. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 973. ROBERT JOSEPH POTHIER 1699-1772] was arguably the greatest French jurist of the eighteenth century. A brilliant scholar, he is renowned for his treatises on Roman law and the various branches of French civil law, which were primary sources for the French Civil Code. FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARTIN 1762-1846], a Frenchborn lawyer, judge, author, translator, printer and historian, is an important figure in the legal history of the south. His career began in North Carolina. He later moved to the Louisiana territory, where he played the central role in the reorganization of its legal system. Appointed attorney-general when Louisiana became a state, he is considered the father of Louisiana jurisprudence.
How long is A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View?
A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View by Robert Joseph Pothier is 716 pages long, and a total of 183,296 words.
This makes it 242% the length of the average book. It also has 224% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 41 minutes to read A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View aloud.
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