Law in the making
By: by Carleton Kemp Allen.
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1930
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Jurisprudence.; Law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Under the title of 'The sources of law', the substance of the following pages formed the Tagore lectures for 1926 in the University of Calcutta."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The sovereign as the source of law; title: 1. Custom: nature and origin; title: 2. Custom: interpretation & application; title: 3. Precedent: nature and history; title: 4. Precedent: authority and operation; title: 5. Equity; title: 6. Legislation; title: 7. Subordinate & autonomatic legislation; title: Appendix: A. Judicial tests of foreign custom. B. Reasonableness of custom. C. Precedent in equity.