Essays in jurisprudence and ethics / by Frederick Pollock.

London : Macmillan, 1882.

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Jurisprudence.

Ethics.

I. The nature of jurisprudence, considered in relation to some recent contributions to legal science

II. Laws of nature and laws of man

III. Some defects of our commercial law

IV. The law of partnership in England

V. Employers’ liability

VI. The theory of persecution

VII The oath of allegiance

VIII. The history of English law as a branch of politics

IX. The science of case-law

X. The casuistry of common sense

XI. Ethics and morals

XII. Marcus Aurelius and the stoic philosophy

XIII. Mr. Spencer’s data of ethics

Index.

The essays fall into two divisions, in the first of which legal topics predominate, in the second ethical. In the first it has been my aim to consider legal ideas and institutions as affected by or affecting the wider interests of history, politics, and practical legislation. In the second I have endeavoured to bring to a better defined issue certain points of ethical discussion by the help of distinctions founded on familiar legal conceptions, and by specifically applying those conceptions and distinctions to admitted facts. In both subjects I have used by preference the historical method, taking that term in a wide, but, I think, not an unfairly wide sense. - Extract from preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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xiv, 383 pages ; 23 cm