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Criminalisation of damage to property by South African common-law crimes	2603	67	9	2679
The emergence of law in ancient Egypt: The role of Maat	2100	504	4	2608
Laws on adultery: comparing the historical development of South African common-law principles with those in English law	1186	47	33	1266
A historical exposition of spatial injustice and segregated urban settlement in South Africa	1017	179	44	1240
Circuit courts in the Cape Colony during the nineteenth century: hazards and achievements	941	19	1	961
Statutory regulation of housebreaking and intrusion in South Africa - an historical perspective	843	33	0	876
The beginnings of a mixed system or, advocates at the Cape during the early nineteenth century, 1828-1850	744	15	4	763
The nature of the crime of arson in South African law	726	34	2	762
The power to remove company directors from office: historical and philosophical roots	707	48	5	760
A historical perspective on the recognition of same-sex unions in South Africa	643	65	43	751
The history and nature of the right to institute a private prosecution in South Africa	650	60	8	718
Legal and public policy considerations that justify legislative development of the law of delict	587	75	13	675
Private schools in South African legal history	613	29	12	654
BEE-ing Chinese in South Africa: a legal historic perspective	553	57	13	623
Legge e limite nell'ebraismo	514	86	0	600
The constitutional right to fair labour practices: a consideration of the influence and continued importance of the historical regulation of (un)fair labour practices pre-1977	512	43	32	587
An introduction to South African law reports and reporters, 1828 to 1910	264	305	2	571
L'emploi des standards en droit romain	489	73	3	565
A tale of two translations: Van Leeuwen and Van der Linden and the application of Roman-Dutch law at the Cape in the 1820s; to which is appended a transcription of PB Borcherds' 1822 translation of book II of Van der Linden's Koopmans Handboek	392	141	5	538
Public policy: the origin of a general clause in the South African law of contract	453	55	1	509
Fundamental principles of law and justice in the opening title of Johannes Voet's Commentarius ad Pandectas	446	29	9	484
The legal-historical context of urban forced evictions in South Africa	348	67	6	421
International relationships in the ancient world	99	315	0	414
The historical development of diamond mining legislation in Griqualand West during the period 1871 to 1880	392	21	0	413
The thirty-three articles and the application of law in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek	379	14	15	408
The omissions in Oppelt	251	140	2	393
Amende honorable and ubuntu: an intersection of ars boni et aequi in African and Roman-Dutch jurisprudence?	336	27	11	374
The origins of hate-crime laws	287	60	3	350
History of the dispossession of the rights in land of pastoral indigenous communities in the cape colony from 1652 to 1910	304	32	5	341
Corporate criminal liability in South Africa: what does history tell us about the reverse onus provision?	287	29	20	336
The history and politics of contemporary common-law purism	288	25	7	320
Multilingualism in South African courts: The legislative regulation of language in the Cape during the nineteenth century	231	36	20	287
Race, ethnicity, discrimination and violence in "colour-blind" France	229	33	13	275
Die durchschnittene Kehle	210	58	2	270
At the base of Rome's peculium economy	236	31	0	267
Maritus v Mulier: The double picture in adultery laws from Romulus to Augustus	240	17	7	264
Onus probandi: la formación del artículo 1.698 del Código Civil de Chile	212	16	3	231
The judicial officers of the Transvaal High Court, 1877-1881	194	21	14	229
Die rei vindicatio im klassischen römischen Recht - ein Überblick	192	26	5	223
La bonne foi contractuelle: D'un passe glorieux a un avenir contraste?	137	79	0	216
The basic tenets of intestate (customary) succession law in Ancient Egypt	179	18	7	204
A conspectus of South African legal periodicals: past to present	170	23	2	195
Race and nation. On ius sanguinis and the origins of a racist national perspective	179	15	1	195
Existimatio as "human dignity" in late-classical Roman law	154	38	2	194
Iustitia und iustus bei den römischen Juristen	62	116	12	190
"He's one who minds the boss's business ..."	156	22	9	187
Leibniz as legal scholar	127	54	2	183
Rape and infidelity: threats to the athenian Πόλις and Οίκος	159	14	8	181
Protection against forced sale of a debtor's home in the Roman context	150	16	4	170
Augustus, legislative power, and the power of appearances	129	36	0	165
A note on chapter 39 of Magna Carta	154	5	2	161
The development of racially defined punishment in colonial Natal: The early history of Durban's Point Prison	120	21	13	154
Remarks on the methodology of private law studies: The use of latin maxims as exemplified by nemo plus iuris	127	12	12	151
John Stuart Mill on matrimonial property and divorce law reform	121	25	3	149
Osservazioni su Cicero II in Verrem 1.155-157	119	28	0	147
The life and times of Cape Advocate Dirk Gysbert Reitz: a biographical note	132	12	0	144
Colonial judges, administrative officers and the Bushe commission in interwar Kenya and Tanganyika	129	12	3	144
La raison d'etat dans la rome antique: Prolégomènes (Cicéron, Tite-live, Tacite)	122	17	5	144
L'état d'exception and/or a state of siege: what is really wrong with section 9(2) of the Constitution of Cameroon?	134	7	0	141
Abuse of state power: the mandatory death penalty for political crimes in Southern Rhodesia, 1963 - 1970	113	21	2	136
Execution against a debtor's home in terms of Roman-Dutch law and the contemporary South African law: comparative observations	116	18	1	135
Alcune note sul fas ed i precetti noachidi	125	7	1	133
Der Vogel Strauβ als frühes Beispiel für Gesetzesanalogie: Ein Phantasma? Grenzfragen bei der römischen Tierhalterhaftung	113	18	2	133
Like a bad penny: The problem of chronic overcrowding in the prisons of colonial Natal: 1845 to 1910 (Part 1)	102	18	13	133
Forty-five years of clinical legal education in South Africa	99	20	14	133
The historical prosecution of hate crimes in the United States of America	95	23	13	131
Suetonius on the legislation of Augustus (Aug 34)	104	21	5	130
Human rights in the eighteenth-century travelogues of Franqois le Vaillant	111	14	2	127
The doctrine of occupation and the founding of Australia	108	19	0	127
Ulpian's praecepta iuris and their role in South African law Part 1: Historical context	85	31	0	116
Tracing the roots of forfeiture and the loss of property in English and American law	86	18	9	113
The Serbian Civil Code - the fourth codification in Europe	76	36	0	112
On supernatural law: about the origins of human rights and natural law in antiquity	62	45	0	107
The experience of Roman private law in Switzerland	82	20	0	102
La formula "ut inter bonos bene agier oportet et sine fraudatione" e la nozione di "vir bonus"	58	39	4	101
Lex princeps legibus solutus abrogata	68	26	7	101
Continuidad histórica de la prohibición de enriquecimiento injustificado	83	12	2	97
Stellung des griechischen rechts in der antiken Rechtsgeschichte	49	43	4	96
A historical review of the development of the post-apartheid South African LLB degree - with particular reference to legal ethics	74	16	4	94
The development of the Cape Common Law during the early nineteenth century: William Porter, James Kent and Joseph Story	15	77	1	93
Brown v Leyds no (1897) 4 or 17: A constitutional drama in four acts. Act three: The king's voice speaks through the 1858 ZAR constitution to President and Chief Justice (1884-1895)	75	14	3	92
Gaius, Hadzic and occupatio of wild animals - classical Roman law in the Serbian Civil Code	78	11	0	89
The first of May: do workers have anything to celebrate in South Africa twenty years into democracy?	72	14	3	89
Plinius, Epistulae 8,14: Abstimmungsprobleme im römischen Senat	75	12	1	88
Ius Romano-Germanicum - zur Rechtsquellenlehre des Usus modernus pandectarum	30	39	17	86
Remarks on the uniformity of natural law concepts in the history of legal philosophy	73	13	0	86
The elegant but indefinable legal art	71	12	2	85
Roman law and the causa legitima for reprisal in Bartolus	69	13	3	85
"I also am a Barolong": Re Bethell and shaping of marriage law and conflict of laws doctrine	63	14	8	85
The lex cornelia de iniuriis and "hyperlinks" in Roman law	66	16	2	84
Schoemansdal: law and justice on the frontier	73	8	0	81
Judge John Holland and the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Cape of Good Hope, 1797-1803: Some introductory and biographical notes (Part 2)	67	14	0	81
A rule must arise from the law as it is - and it is not cast in stone	61	14	5	80
The historical development of grounds for divorce in the French and Dutch Civil Codes	70	7	2	79
Revisiting the historical context surrounding the development of the ultimate-issue rule to inform its future in South African law of evidence	55	24	0	79
A bibliometric analysis of Schulz, Koschaker, Pringsheim, Wieacker and Coing	62	11	6	79
Perficio emptionis in case of a sale of wine in Roman law	55	14	10	79
The origin and development of emergency regimes in Cameroon	60	11	6	77
Some remarks on laesio enormis and proportionality in Roman-Dutch law and Calvinistic commercial ethics	54	15	5	74
Bemerkungen zur Beweisführung in Ciceros Cluentiana	60	8	5	73

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