Jurisprudence and legal essays
By: Selected and introduced by A.L. Goodhart
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction /; title: by A. L. Goodhart -- A first book of jurisprudence: some general legal notions -- I. The nature and meaning of law -- II. Justice according to law -- III. The subject-matter of law -- IV. Divisions of law -- V. Persons -- VI. Things, events, and acts -- VII. Relation of persons to things: possession and ownership -- VIII. Claims of persons on persons: relation of obligations to property -- The history of the law of nature -- Laws of nature and laws of man -- The science of case-law -- The history of English law as a branch of politics -- Has the Common Law received the fiction theory of corporations? -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Index