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This standard work incorporates all important developments in the subject. Prof. Pillai has elicited from amidst the explosive volume of case-law available today, the basic jurisprudential principles and presented them in a precise form. This comprehensive book covers the complete syllabus of jurisprudence and Legal Theory of the different Indian Universities and every possible aspect of present day jurisprudence and the diverse and varied theories of the great ancient and modern jurists have been covered.
In the jurisprudential part, the chapter on precedents has been exhaustively revised incorporating the modern doctrines of prospective overruling, etc.
A noteworthy contribution to the literature on the subject.
TABLE OF CASES XIV
Jurisprudence - its Meanings 4 Divisions of Jurisprudence and its Scope 5
Imperative Law 16 Physical or Scientific Law 18 Natural or Moral Law 18 Conventional Law 19 Customary Law 19 Practical or Technical Law 19 International Law or the Law of Nations 20 Civil Law or the Law of the State 20
Evolution of Law 22 Definition of Law 23 Law and Justice 26 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Administration of Justice according to Law 26 Law, Ethics and Positive Morality 27 Imperative Theory of Law 28 Natural Law 31 Three Classes of Duties 32 Private Justice and Public Justice 33
Question of Fact and Judicial Discretion 36
Local Law 43 Conflict of Laws 43 Conventional Law 44 Autonomic Law 44 Martial Law 44 International Law-Prize Law 45 General Law 46
Necessity for Administration of Justice 47 Origin of the Administration of Justice 48 Civil and Criminal Justice 48
Praesumptiones juris or Presumptions of Law 56 Praesumptiones hominis or Presumptions of Fact 57 Presumptions and Fictions 58
State and Society 60 State and Nation 60 Government and State 61 State and other Groups 61 Essential Functions of the State 61 Membership of the State 62 The Constitution of a State 63 Flexible and Rigid Constitutions 64 Rule of Law 65
Historical Outline of the Development of this Theory 69 Criticism 70 Can Sovereignty be Divided? 72 Law does not imply Sovereignty 73 Sir Henry Maine's Criticism 74 Criticism of Sovereignty by Jenks 75
Legal Sources of English Law 77
Supreme and Subordinate Legislation 78 Autonomic and Conventional Law 80 Advantages of Legislation 80 Codification 81 Interpretation of Enacted Law 81
Declaratory and Original Precedents 85 Ratio Decidendi 86 Obiter Dicta 87 Authoritative and Persuasive Precedents 87 Doctrine of Stare Decisis 88 Hierarchy of Courts 90 Doctrine of Prospective Overruling 94 Advantages and Disadvantages of Precedent 101
Reasons for the Reception of Customary Law 104 Kinds of Custom 105 Custom and Prescription 109 Relation of Custom to Law 110 General Custom of the Realm 111
Text books 114
Wrongs 120 Duties 120 Rights 121 Elements of a Legal Right 121 Ownerless Right an Impossibility 122 Different Meanings of the word Right 123
Perfect and Imperfect Rights 128 Rights against the State 128 Positive and Negative Rights 129 Real and Personal Right or Right in Rem and Right in Personam 129 Jus Ad Rem or a Right to a Right 130 Proprietary and Personal Rights or Estate and Status 130 Rights in re Propria and Jura in re Aliena 131 Principal and Accessory Rights 133 Legal and Equitable Rights 133
Corporeal or Incorporeal Ownership 135 Corporeal or Incorporeal Things 136 Sole Ownership and Co-ownership 137
Essentials of Possession 143 Corporeal and Incorporeal Possession 144 Animus Possidendi 146 Corpus Possessionis 148 Mediate and Immediate Possession 151 Duplicate or Concurrent Possession 152 Acquisition of Possession 152 Commencement and Continuance of Possession 153 Relation between Possession and Ownership 154 Constructive Possession 155 Seisin 155 Possessory Remedies 155
Nature of Personality 157 Legal Status of Animals 158 Legal Status of Dead Men 158 Legal Status of Unborn Persons 159 Double Capacity and Double Personality 159 Legal Persons 159 Corporations 160
Acts in the Law and Acts of the Law 173 Agreements 174 Classes of Agreements 175
Nature and Kinds of Liability 182 Acts 184 Damnum Sine Injuria 186 Mens Rea 187 Non Est Reus Mens Sit Rea 187
Intention, Negligence and Recklessness 188 Intention and Expectation 188 Doctrine of Transferred Malice 189 Intention and Motive 190 Malice 191 Malice and Fraud 192 Relevance and Irrelevance of Motives 192 Criminal Attempts 193
Duty to Take Care 199 Standard of Care 200
Mistake of Law 202 Mistake of Fact 203 Accident 204 Vicarious Responsibility 204 Measure of Criminal Liability 206 Motive of the Offence 206 Magnitude of the Offence 206 Character of the Offender 207 Measure of Civil Liability 207
Meaning of the term Property 208 Kinds of Property 209
Possession 216 Prescription 217 Agreement 218 Inheritance 219
Choses in Action 221 Solidary Obligations 222 Sources of Obligations 223
Substantive Law and the Law of Procedure 225 Five Stages of Judicial Procedure 226
Kinds of Evidence 228 Valuation of Evidence 230 Production of Evidence 231
Pound's Classification of Interests 235 Social Interests 236 Economic Prosperity of the State 236 The Protection of Religious - Moral and Humanitarian and Intellectual Values 238 Health and Racial Integrity 240 Private Interests 241
St. Thomas Aquinas (1226-74) 259 Duns Scotus (1265-1308) and Williams of Occam (1290-1349) 260 Reason and the Law of Nature 261 Natural Law and Social Contract Theory 262 Grotius (1583-1645) 263 Hobbes (1588-1649) 263 Locke (1632-1704) 264 Rousseau (1712-1788) 265 Hume (1711-76) 266 Natural Law Theories in England and America 267 Revival of Natural Law Theories 272
Ehrlich (1862-1922) 274 Analytical Legal Positivism 275 Kelson (1881-1973): Pure theory of Law 275 Hart's Concept of Law 278
The American Realist Movement 282 The Scandinavian Realists 283 Law and Utilitarianism 285 Legal Theory and Social Problems 287
Duguit (1859-1958) 288 Roles 290
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 292 Fichte (1762-1814) 293 Hegel (1770-1831) 293 Stammler (1856-1938) 295 Philosophy of Values and Law 296 Phenomenology and Existentialism of Law 298 Nature der Sache (Nature of the Thing) 298 Existentialism 299 Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888) : Historical Theory 301
Rights of the Individual 303 Freedom of the Person 304 Equality before Law 305 Government by the People - Democracy 306 Rule of Law, Freedom and Planning 306 The Role of Law and the Function of the Lawyer in the Developing Countries 308
Marxist Theory of Law 310 Doctrine of Withering away of Law and State 311 Criticism of Marxist Theory 311 Soviet Legal System 312 Revolutionary Legality 313 Socialist Legality 314 Titoism 315 China 318
Empirical Theories 321 Application of Higher Law in the Nuremberg Trial 324 Law, Morality and Social Change 326
Divisions of the Law 328 Private and Public Law 328 Civil and Criminal Law 328 Substantive Law and the Law of Procedure 329 Public Policy 331 SUBJECT INDEX 333
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