Legal duties and other essays in jurisprudence
By: by Carleton Kemp Allen...
Publisher: The Clarendon Press
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Law.; Jurisprudence
Notes: "All the papers which are collected in this volume, except 'The presumption of innocence' and the appendix, have been previously published."- Note.
Table of contents: title: Table of cases.- Tables of statutes.- Jurisprudence - what and why?- Status and capacity.- The judge as man of the world.- The phlegmatic Englishman in the common law.- Legal morality and the ius abutendi.- The young Bentham.- Maine's 'Ancient law'.- Legal duties.- The nature of a crime.- The presumption of innocence.- Appendix: Indictable offences.- Index.