Law in the making / by Clarleton Kemp Allen.

New York, N.Y.: The Legal Classics Library 1927

1st edition

260

Law -- Sources.

Law -- Great Britain.

Jurisprudence.

Introduction: The soverign as the source of law

Chapter I: Custom: nature and origin

I. Nature of custom

II. Origin of custom

Chapter II: Custom: interpretation and application

I. Interpretation of custom

II. Application of custom

Chapter III: Precedent: nature and history

I. Theory of judicial decision

II. Growth of precedent in English law

Chapter IV: Precedent: Authority and operation

I. General rules for application of precedents in English law

II. Authority of precedent

III. Working of legal induction

IV. Practical value of precedents

Chapter IV: Legislation

I. Place of legislation among sources of law

II. Forms of legislation

III. Force of legislation

IV. Scope and duration of legislation

V. Interpretation of legislation

Chapter VII: Subordinate and autonomic legislation

I. Growth of the principle of devolution

II. Chief spheres of delegated legislation

III. Relation between sovereign and subordinate legislation

IV. Juristic meaning of present tendencies

Appendix A: Judicial tests of foreign custom

Appendix B: Reasonableness of custom

Appendix C: Precedent in equity.

Includes booklet "Law in the making, Sir Carleton Kemp Allen : notes from the editors", by Thomas G Barnes. This is bound separately in "Legal classics library : notes from the editors" vol 3.

Includes index.

xxiii, 388 pages ; 23 cm