Contents
PART I
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1
The Nature & Scope of Jurisprudence
1.1 What is Jurisprudence?
Views of jurists on what is jurisprudence
1.2 Scope of Jurisprudence
1.3 Approach to the study of jurisprudence
1.4 Significance and Utility of Jurisprudence
1.5 Relationship of Jurisprudence with other Social-Sciences
1.6 Jurisprudence and Sociology
1.7 Jurisprudence and Psychology
1.8 Jurisprudence and Ethics
1.9 Jurisprudence and Economics
1.10 Jurisprudence and History
1.11 Jurisprudence and Politics
Chapter 2
The Nature of Law
2.1 Definition of Law
2.2 Austin’s Theory of Law
2.3 Criticism of Austin’s Theory of Law
2.4 Salmond’s Definition of Law
2.5 Legal Sanctions
2.6 Territorial Nature of Law
2.7 Purpose and Function of Law
2.8 Uses or Advantages of Law
2.9 Disadvantages of Law
2.10 Question of Law and Fact
2.11 Kinds of Law
2.12 Classification of Law
PART II
THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Chapter 3
Purpose and Importance of Justice
3.1 Importance of Justice
3.2 Administration of Justice
3.3 Advantages and Disadvantages of Legal Justice
3.4 Public Justice
3.5 Justice according to Law
Chapter 4
Justice according to Law
4.1 Civil and Criminal Justice
4.2 Theories of Punishment
4.2.1 Deterrent Theory
4.2.2 Preventive Theory
4.2.3 Reformative Theory
4.2.4 Retributive Theory
4.2.5 Theory of Compensation
4.3 Kinds of Punishment
4.3.1 Capital Punishment
4.3.2 Deportation
4.3.3 Corporeal Punishment
4.3.4 Imprisonment
4.3.5 Solitary confinement
4.3.6 Indeterminate sentence
4.4 Civil Justice
PART III
THE SOURCES OF LAW
Chapter 5
Sources of Law
5.1 Meaning of Sources of Law
5.2 Material Sources : Legal and Historical
5.3 Legal Sources of English Law
5.4 Sources of Law and Sources of right
5.5 Ultimate Legal Principles
Chapter 6
Legislation
6.1 Legislation as source of Law
6.2 Supreme and Subordinate Legislation
6.3 Legislation and Precedents
6.4 Legislation and Custom
6.5 Advantage of Precedent over legislation
6.6 Interpretation of Enacted Law
6.7 Recent trends in Interpretative Methods
Chapter 7
Law of Precedents
7.1 Early History & Development of Precedents
7.2 Precedent in modern Continental Law
7.3 Precedents in English Common Law
7.4 Law of Precedent in India
7.5 Two meanings of the Doctrine of Precedent
7.6 Authoritative and persuasive precedents
7.7 How precedents are disregarded?
7.8 Substances destroying or weakening the binding force of precedent
7.9 The ratio decidendi
7.10 Whether the given proposition is a ratio?
7.10.1 Wambaugh’s Test
7.10.2 Halsbury’s Test
7.10.3 Goodhart’s Method of determining the ratio decidendi
Chapter 8
Custom
8.1 Definition
8.2 Origin of Custom
8.3 Ingredients
8.4 Kinds of Custom
PART IV
LEGAL CONCEPTS
Chapter 9
Legal Rights and Duties
9.1 Legal Wrong
9.2 Duty
9.3 Legal Rights
9.4 Hohfelds Analysis of Legal Rights
9.5 Legal Right Concepts
9.6 Kinds of Legal Right
Chapter 10
Ownership
10.1 Salmond on ownership
10.2 Austin on ownership
10.3 Dias on ownership
10.4 The subject matter of ownership
10.5 Classification of ownership
Chapter 11
Possession
11.1 Concept of Possession
11.2 Possession in Fact and Possession in Law
11.3 Immediate and Mediate Possession
11.4 Theories of Possession
Chapter 12
Persons
12.1 Concept
12.2 Legal status of lower animals
12.3 Legal status of dead persons
12.4 Status of unborn person
12.5 Legal persons
12.6 Corporations
12.7 Theories of Juristic Personality
12.7.1 Fiction Theory
12.7.2 The Concession Theory
12.7.3 The Organism Theory
12.7.4 The Group Personality
12.7.5 The Bracket Theory
12.7.6 Hohfeld’s Theory
12.7.7 Kelsen’s Theory
Chapter 13
Titles
13.1 Classification of Titles
13.2 Importance of Agreements
13.3 Kinds of Agreements
Chapter 14
Liability
14.1 Definition
14.2 Kinds of Liability
Theories of negligence
14.2.1 Civil Liability
14.2.2 Remedial Liability
14.2.3 Penal Liability
14.2.4 Vicarious Liability
14.2.5 Absolute and Strict Liability
Chapter 15
Law of Property
15.1 Meaning of Property
15.2 Kinds of Property
15.3 Modes of Acquisition of Property
15.4 Theories of Property
Chapter 16
Laws of Obligations
16.1 Definition of Obligation
16.2 Sources of Obligations
Chapter 17
The Law of Procedure
17.1 Law of Procedure and substantive law
17.2 Stages of judicial procedure
17.3 Evidence
PART V
LEGAL THEORY
Chapter 18
Analytical Legal Positivism & Pure Theory of Law
18.1 Analytical Legal Positivism and different Approaches
18.2 Positivism in Law
18.3 Analytical School
18.3.1 Bentham (1742-1832)
18.3.2 John Austin (1790-1859)
18.3.3 H.L.A.Hart (1907)
18.4 Pure Theory of Law, Kelsen (1881-1973)
Chapter 19
Historical School of Law
19.1 F.K.Von Savigny (1779-1861)
19.2 Sir Henry Maine (1822-1888)
Chapter 20
The Philosophical School of Law
20.1 Jurisprudence and Echics
20.2 Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)
20.3 Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
20.4 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
20.5 Josef Kohler (1849-1919)
20.6 Rudolf Stammler (1856-1938)
Chapter 21
Sociological School
21.1 Auguste Comte (1798-1875)
21.2 Montesquieu (1689-1755)
21.3 Rudolf Von Jhering (1818-1892)
21.4 Max Weber (1864-1920)
215 Gierke (1841-1921)
21.6 Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922)
21.7 Roscoe Pound (1870-1964)
21.8 Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
Chapter 22
Natural Law
22.1 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
22.2 John Locke (1632-1704)
22.3 Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
22.4 Immaneul Kant (1724-1804)
22.5 Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814)
22.6 George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
Chapter 23
American Realism
23.1 Justice Holmes (1841-1935)
23.2 Jerome Frank (1889-1957)
23.3 Carl N. Llewellyn (1893-1962)
Chapter 24
The Scandinavian Realists
24.1 Hagerstorm (1868-1939)
24.2 K.Olivercrona (b.1897)
24.3 A.V.Lundstead (1882-1995)
24.4 Alf Ross (b. 1899)
Chapter 25
Revival of Natural Law
25.1 Giorgio Del Vecchio (1878-1970)
25.2 Joseph Kohler (1849-1919)
25.3 Rudolf Stammler (1856-1938)
25.4 Leon Duguit (1859-1928)
25.5 John Rawls (1921-2002)
Chapter 26
Marxist Theory of State & Law
26.1 Introduction
26.2 Evgeny Pashukanis (1891-1937)
26.3 Karl Renner
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