Lex Princeps Legibus Solutus Abrogata

Authors
Publication date 2014
Journal Fundamina
Volume | Issue number 20 | 2
Pages (from-to) 973-981
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR)
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence (PSC)
Abstract Closely following the text of Hugo Grotius' De antiquitate, Simon van Groenewegen argues in his Tractatus de legibus abrogatis that D. 1,3,31 (lex princeps legibus solutus) had been abrogated in Holland in the seventeenth century. More than that, D. 1,3,31 had never been in force and the counts of Holland had never been exempted from its laws. When King Philip II ignored those laws, the States General declared that he had ipso jure forfeited his right to govern and expelled him.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/funda/v20n2/46.pdf
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