Von Savigny's Treatise on Possession; Or The, Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law

Savigny, Friedrich Carl von. Von Savigny's Treatise on Possession; or the Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law. Sixth Edition. Translated from the German by Sir Erskine Perry. London: R. Sweet, 1848. xvi, 432 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-289-1. Cloth. $150. Treatise on the nature of the legal concept of possession by the German jurist and scholar of Roman law, Freidrich Carl von Savigny [1779-1861], a founder of the historical school of jurisprudence, which opposed the natural school of thought. The only English translation of his first work, and originally published in German in 1803, the book made Savigny's reputation as a jurist of the first order. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 1103. Sweet and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I: 316. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University (1909) I:386.