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Margaret Louise Hewett was a South African authority on the Old Authorities of Roman-Dutch law.

Publications
Publications by Margaret Hewett include: • Groenewegen van der Made, S. Tractatus de Legibus Abrogatis et Inusitatis in Hollandia vicinisque Regionibus (1649) volume III (1984) and volume IV (1987) • Voorda, Tractatus de Statutis (1743) (translated by M.L. Hewett and edited by P. Van Warmelo) 1985. • Matthaeus, A. De Criminibus (1644) (edited and translated by M.L. Hewett and B.C. Stroop volume I (Juta, Cape Town) 1987. • Van Leeuwen, S. Censura Forensis (1741). Part I, Book V (edited and translated by M.L. Hewett) (published by the Government Printer, Pretoria, on behalf of The South African Law Commission) 1991. • Voorda, J., Thomas, Ph. J., Van Warmelo, Paul., & Hewett, M. L. (1992). Dictata ad ius hodiernum Jacobi Voordae : secundum librum quod appellatur, differentiae iuris Romani et Belgici. Apud Universitatum Pretoriensem. • Hewett, M. L. (1995). A bird's eye view of a bookworm's delight : an overview of some libraries and archives in Europe and the USA essential for the legal historian. University of Cape Town. • Hewett, M. L. (1996). Legal historians, ahoy. University of Cape Town. • Hewett, M. L. (1998). More bird's eye view of a bookworm's delight : an overview of some libraries and archives in Europe and the USA essential for the legal historian. University of Cape Town. • Hewett, and Hallebeek. "The Prelate, the Praetor and the Professor: Antonius Matthaeus II and the Crimen Laesae Majestatis, Utrecht 1639–1640." Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis 66, no. 1–2 (1998): 115–150. • de Smidt. "G. Hemmy, De Testimoniis: The Testimony of Aethiopians, Chinese and Other Pagans as Well as of the Hottentots Inhabiting the Cape of Good Hope, Likewise about the Complaints of East Indian Slaves, A Thesis Presented to the University of Leiden in 1770 for the Degree of Doctor of Both Laws, Edited and Translated from the Latin by Margaret Hewett. UCT, [Cape Town] 1998. XXXIII + 2 x p. 9-67." Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis 67, no. 3–4 (1999): 392–393. • Thomasius, C., Hewett, M. L., & Zimmermann, R. (2000). Larva legis aquiliae : the mask of the lex aquilia torn off the action for damage done : a legal treatise. Hart Publishing. • Hewett, Margaret. "Voorda." Fundamina : a journal of legal history 2003, no. 9 (2003): 103–113. • Hewett, M. (2005). Quae legentem fefellissent, transferentem fugere non possunt. Fundamina : A Journal of Legal History, 2005(1), 163–171. • Voorda, Jacobus, and M. L. Hewett. Dictata Ad Ius Hodiernum = Lectures on the Contemporary Law (Ms Leeuwarden P.B.F., Hof 33) given by Jacobus Voorda (1698–1768) at the University of Utrecht. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005. • Hewett, M. (2014). Words, law and a search engine. Fundamina, 20(1), 412–415. ==Awards==
Awards
She was created an Officer in the Orange-Nassau for her services to the Dutch state. She received this honour in recognition for her two-volume translation of Jacobus Voorda's (1698 - 1768) Dictata ad Ius Hodiernum (Lectures on the Contemporary Law). She was awarded this honour on 19 May 2006 in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands on the occasion of the launch of the book. ==References==
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