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Book review - Geva: The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages: A Legal History
THE PAYMENT ORDER OF ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES: A Legal History. Benjamiin Geva LLB, LLM, SJD, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. Hart, Oxford (2011) xlvii and 641 pp, plus 44 pp Illustrations, 25 pp Bibliography and 24 pp Index. Hardback £95.
This book delivers more than the title indicates: there are chapters expressly devoted to post-medieval developments, especially in the English common law. The epilogue “From Barter to
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