Two Discourses Delivered in the Middle Temple Hall
by George Long
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ISBN13: 9780217945257
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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: I. The subject of this address will be most appropriately derived from the Report of the Committee of this Society on Legal Education. For the reasons stated in their Report, the Committee recommend that the first step for the promotion of Legal Education to be taken by this House, should be the appointment of a Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law. ? By the term' Jurisprudence' the Committee mean to indicate General Jurisprudence, as distinguished from the Particular Jurisprudence of any individual nation.?General Jurisprudence has been properly called a Philosophy of Positive Law, as being something which comprehends the principles of all systems of law. By virtue of its universality, it is rightly called General; and inasmuch as it is a systematic exposition of principles with their logical consequences, it is appropriately called a Philosophy. The Committee also contemplate a comparison of the systems of Jurisprudence of particular nations, which they indicate by the term Comparative Jurisprudence. The process of discovery may not be, and generally is not, the best method for expounding a thing. The principles of General Jurisprudence are grounded in and derived from the constitution of man's nature; they are developed by the existence of political society. Each society political has something peculiar, which has made it that particular political chapter{{Section 4society, and given some peculiar character to the notions of positive morality and to the rules of positive law which obtain therein. But if we compare particular political societies, we recognise the same general principles of morality and of law in all of them, under various names and under different forms; and such a comparison furnishes materials for the construction of a philosophy of positive mor...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217945257 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217945252 |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 84 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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