The Nature and Sources of the Law

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Description
SOME fifty years ago I came across a copy of Austin's "Province of Jurisprudence Determined," then little read in England, and all but unknown in this country; and since then, although my work has been mainly on other lines, the subject has seldom been for long wholly out I put my ideas into substantially their of my mind. present shape a dozen years ago; I have held them in abeyance more than the prescribed nine years; but I doubt if they would ever have been published had not Columbia University done me the honor of applying the lene tormentum of an invitation to give a course of lec- tures on the Carpentier Foundation.
The lectures were read at Columbia University in the spring of 1908. They have been here divided into thirteen chapters, but no attempt has been made to change The use of the familiar style they bore in delivery. homely expressions and examples helps one to keep a grasp on the facts of daily life, the loss of which is the chief danger in the moral sciences.
There may not be so good a defence for the repetitions in these lectures; readers may be provoked by what they will consider damnable iteration; but here, too, it seemed desirable to show how, in approaching the Law from different points of view, the same truths emerge as fundamental.
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Table of Contents
Part I Nature of the Law
Chapter 1. Legal Rights and Duties
Chapter 2. Legal Persons
Chapter 3. The State
Chapter 4. The Law
Chapter 5. The Courts
Chapter 6. Law of Nations
Chapter 7. Jurisprudence
Part II Sources of the Law
Chapter 8. Statutes
Chapter 9. Judicial Precedents
Chapter 10. Judicial Precedents in the United States
Chapter 11. Opinions of Experts
Chapter 12. Custom
Chapter 13. Morality and Equity
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Author Details
John Chipman Gray