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- Kenneth F. Ledford. From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878-1933. Cambridge University Press, Nov 2, 2006 pg. 75
- Hans Schulte-Nölke. Das Reichsjustizamt und die Entstehung des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuchs (IUS COMMUNE, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Vol. 71), Klostermann, Frankfurt/Main 1995, XIX, 378 pp
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