A Systematic View of The Science of Jurisprudence

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Description
THERE is scarcely a Topic in this Work which has not been the subject of repeated Lecturing, Teaching, and Conversational or Critical Dispu tations with Students. Thus the keen-minded members of the Author's successive Classes must have their share in the responsibility or the merit of attempted Innovations. It is to serious Stu- dents, Professional and Unprofessional,-Men and Women, that this Book is addressed; though no Book,-if it serve its purpose as a Book,-can dispense with Oral Teaching,-if Oral Teaching also truly serve its purpose as such.
No English Writer, however, on Scientific Juris- prudence (be his temperament ever so cautious, self-restrained, and practical) can keep out of view the glaring demand for a Systematic Recon- struction of the Material Contents of English Law. The Possibility and the Modes of such a Recon- struction are discussed at some length in the last Chapter of this Work. In view of such a Task being one day,-or progressively from day to day, --undertaken, it has been essayed here to lay the indispensable Foundations by moulding a Precise Terminology, by insisting on Logical Methods of Classification, and, above all, by drawing an un- mistakeably clear Line of Demarcation between Ethical and Legal Conceptions.
In the Chapter on Laws of Procedure the passages with reference to Circumstantial Evidence are very slightly varied from some forming part of an Article by the Author on the same Subject which appeared in the Number of the Westminster Review for January, 1865.
In revising the Proof-Sheets, the Author omitted to notice that, on Page 300, "Principals and Accessories" appears as "Principles and Accessories." On the same Page, "VI. and VII." would be printed as "C. and D.," as in the "Analysis of Topics." On Page 175, "Slander of Title" is accidentally made to appear as though it involved a Criminal Process.
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Contents
Chapter 1. General Description of the Province of the Science of Jurisprudence
Chapter 2. General View of the Historical Development of the Materials of the Science of Jurisprudence
Chapter 3. Relation of the Science of Jurisprudence to All other Sciences
Chapter 4. Materials, or Contents, of the Science of Jurisprudence
Chapter 5. The Sources of Law and the Interpretation of Law
Chapter 6. Distribution of the Main Departments of Legal System
Chapter 7. An Explanation of Leading Terms
Chapter 8. Classification of Laws
Chapter 9. Laws Directly Relating to the Constitution and Administration of the State (Constitutional Law)
Chapter 10. Laws of Ownership
Chapter 11. Laws of Contract
Chapter 12. Laws Affecting Special Classes of Persons
Chapter 13. Laws of Civil Injuries and Criimes
Chapter 14. Laws of Procedure
Chapter 15. Private International Law
Chapter 16. General Prospects of the Science of Jurisprudence
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Author Details
Sheldon Amos