Acquisitive Prescription: Its Existing World-Wide Uniformity

Abstract

The recent appeal of Lord Justice Kennedy1 for unified laws covering the various fundamental transactions of business and of domestic relations is not a mere dream, but rests on a solid foundation of fact,-namely the too-often overlooked agreement as to essentials which exists in modern law throughout the world. So thoroughly have the principles of Roman law survived or been re-absorbed in all modern jurisprudence that a movement for unification of the private laws of the world is a natural result of this situation. The world of today is witnessing a virtual economic unity, and also something approaching a political unity as a result of the growth of arbitration and treaties: is it time to try to supplement these unities by a unification of private laws?