Jurisprudence and legal essays / by Sir F. Pollock ; selected and introduced by A.L. Goodhart.

New York: St Martin's Press Inc., 1961.

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Jurisprudence.

Legal essays.

Preface

Introduction 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.

The sixth, and last, edition of Sir Frederick Pollock's A First Book of Jurisprudence was published in 1929, and is now out of print. It was divided into Part I, Some General Legal Notions, and Part II, Legal Authorities and Their Use. Only Part I has been republished in the present volume, because Part II, being of a more technical nature, would have had to be rewritten in large part to bring it up to date. The essays that are here collected have been chosen from Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics (1882) and Essays in the Law (1922). The date and place of previous publication are noted at the beginning of each essay. Reference to some of Pollock's other books and essays is made in the Introduction. No alterations have been made in the text of the Juris- prudence or of the Essays because it is important that it should be Pollock's ideas and not someone else's that are presented here. - Extract from preface.

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