The Law Quarterly Review, Ed by F Pollock [and Others]
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217088435
Paperback|9780217088435
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 62 HOLTZENDORFF'S ENCYCLOPADIE. DURING the last thirty or forty years a very strong movement has taken place in this country in favour of the promotion of systematic legal studies. English people want to attain a comprehensive view of their own law, but they find it scattered about in thousands of Acts of Parliament and in endless volumes of law reports, and thus a knowledge of law is necessarily limited to those who make it their special study and profession. This state of things is not better than it was in ancient Rome, where law was a mystery the knowledge of which was confined to the patrician priesthood. We may say, it is still worse, for even English lawyers do not know the principles of the whole sphere of law, being in want of the means to get a comprehensive view of it. It is natural that under these circumstances, the wish to have English law brought into a form which would make its study accessible for everybody who is interested in it, becomes stronger and stronger. Since the day when Bentham first used the word ' Codification, ' the wish to have English law codified has been expressed with increasing frequency. And, indeed, this wish is the mainspring of the active movement which has taken place in this country. But it cannot be accomplished at once. In order to codify existing law it must have previously existed in the form of a scientific system, i.e. in the form of rules which are abstracted from the sources of law (statutes, decided cases or ' books of authority') and arranged according to certain leading conceptions. Fortunately steps have been taken in this direction which justify us in taking a hopeful view of the future development of English jurisprudence and legislation. Thus, although there does not yet exist a scientific system of English Priva..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217088435 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217088430 |
| Weight | 1.39 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 In |
| List Price | $29.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 432 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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