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Legal system and lawyers reasoning - 3rd - Delhi Universal Law Publishing Co.Pvt.Ltd. 2008 - 454p xi

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments;
List of Abbreviations;
Introduction;
Chapter 1. A Legal System and its Orderings;
I. Unity and disunity in the legal process;
II. Legal discourse and prescription: The semantic frame;
III. Nature and limits of logical Inquiries concerning law;
Chapter 2. Austin’s “General Jurisprudence”;
Chapter 3. Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law;
I Intellectual basis and scope of the pure theory of law;
II. Principal doctrines of the Pure theory of law;
III. Limitations of the pure theory of law;
Chapter 4. Hohfeld’s Fundamental Legal Conception;
Chapter 5. Conceptual Boundaries and Structure of Legal Orders;
I. The definition of law;
II. The structure of a legal order;
Chapter 6. Logic and Growth in Law;
I. Logic and growth in the common law;
II. Logic and growth under a code;
III. Logic and growth in the uncodified Roman law;
IV. Social change and legal categories of illusory reference: The English judicial achievement;
Chapter 7. Categories of Illusory Reference in the Growth of the Common Law;
I. Social change and the common law tradition;
II. Main types of categories of illusory reference;
III. Use and abuses of logic in modern case law;
Chapter 8. Reasons and Reasoning in Judicial and Juristic Argument;
Project-Notes;
Table of cases;
Table of Statutes;
Bibliographical;
Index;
Index of names;
General Index.


ISBN: 9788175341364

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Legal System2. Legal Philosophy3. Jurisprudence

Dewey Class. No.: 340.100000 / STO-2