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Book- Introduction to jurisprudence

Lloyd

"the realists have done good work in emphasising both the essentially flexible attitude of the judiciary towards developing precedent, even within the four corners of a rigid doctrine of precedent and the operation of concealed factors in judicial lawmaking"

Lloyd

"the purpose of government and law is to uphold and protect the natural rights of man"

Locke

"in the state of nature, no one was supposed to harm another in life, health, liberty or possessions. For men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise maker, all the servants of one sovereign master, sent in to the world by his order and about his business"

Lockr

"time has come to reunite jurisprudence. Jurisprudence should be adequate in that sense that it will combine positivist, naturalist and sociological study. The result will be integrative jurisprudence"

Hall

"justice is realised only through good law"

Morris

"law has to be justified morally, socially and technically"

Morris

"law does not just fade away, but goes out with a bang"

Fuller

"man by nature never thinks, and he who thinks is a corrupt creature"

Rousseau

On social contract- "since each gives himself up to all, he gives himself up to no one; and as there is acquired over every associate the same right that is given up himself, there is gained the equivalent of what is lost, with greater power to preserve what is left"

Rousseau

"a law is a resolution of the whole people for the whole people, touching a matter that concerns all"

Rousseau

"Englishmen were free only during the election days and after that they were enslaved and count for nothing"

Rousseau

"the larger the state, the less the liberty"

Rousseau

"the law of nature being coeval with mankind and dictated by god himself is of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times"

Blackstone

On universal law- "it's no better than medical treatment should be the same for all patients"

Ihering

"a legal rule without coercion is a fire which does not burn, a light that does not shine"

Ihering

"law is the guarantee of the conditions of life of society, assured by the state's power of constraint. It is the result of constant struggle to attain peace and order"

Ihering

"the birth of law, like that of men, has been uniformly attended by the violent thores of childbirth"

Ihering

Book- law as a means to an end

Ihering

"purpose is the creator of the entire law. The real force that moves human will is interest"

Ihering

"the highest principle of classification from the Philosophical point of view is that in addition to the individual and the state, society must also be recognized as a subject"

Ihering

"law is an assemblage of signs declarative of a volition conceived or adopted by the sovereign in a state, concerning the conduct to be observed in a certain case by a certain person or class of persons, who in the case in question are or are supposed to be subject to his power"

Bentham

The end of legislation is the 'greatest happiness of the greatest number'

Benthan

"aim of the legislation is only to remove the shackles from the individual's freedom aand provide him opportunities for his self progress"

Bentham

Book- 'limits of jurisprudence', 'introduction to principles of morals and legislation'

Bentham

"the business of the ordinary sort of law is to prescribe to the people what they shall do: the business of transcendent class of laws is to prescribe to the sovereign what they shall do"

Bentham

"the individuality of a law results from tge integrity and the unity of it laid together. The unity of law will depend upon the unity of the species of the act which is object to it"

Bentham

On natural law- "simple nonsense, natural and imprescriptable rights; rhetorical nonsense, nonsense upon slits"

Bentham

"absolute equality is absolutely impossible"

Bentham

"the law of nature was deduced from the nature of man as it reveals itself in the basic inclinations if that nature under the control of reason"

Dabin

On Austin-"but the demonstration if precisely where and why he is wrong has proved to be constant source of illumination"

Hart

Book- "the concept of law"

Hart

"where there is law, there human conduct is made in some sense non-optional or obligatory"

Hart

"law depends not only on external social pressures but also on the inner point of view that human beings take towards a rule imposing an obligation"

Hart

"there are therefore two minimum conditions necessary for the existence of a legal system, the rules of behavior and the rules of recognition"

Hart

On international law- "there is no basic rule providing general criteria of validity for the rules of international law, and that the rules which are in fact operative constitute not a system, but a set of rules"

Hart

On international law- "the basic norm is, states should behave as they have customarily behaved"

Hart

On Fuller- "his ideals are unfortunately compatible with great inequality"

Hart

On Austin- "his works are indispensable, if for no other object, then for clearing the head"

Maine

Books- early history of institutions, dissertations on early law and custom

Maine

"the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from status to contract"

Maine

"my theory is not meant to apply to personal conditions imposed otherwise than by natural capacity"

Maine

On Maine- "he blazed a scientific trail into the field of law, a field hitherto dominated by philosophizing and speculative thought"

Pospisil

"the historical school had opened the way; it remained glued to the spot, incapable of using the instrument of evolution and practice which it had just proclaimed. The reason was that it had in advance clipped its wings and disarmed itself by declaring that it could not scientifically exert an influence on the development of the phenomena of law; it could merely wait, register, and observe."

Saleilles

"the analytical lawyer is a positivist. He is not concerned with ideals; he takes the law as a given matter created by the state whose authority he does not question"

Friedmann

Book- legal theory

Friedmann

On Ihering- "he prepared the more elastic legal technique required to meet new and challenging legal problems by his fight against the jurisprudence of concepts"

Friedmann

On Ehlrich- "his sociology of law is always on the point of becoming a necessarily sketchy, general sociology"

Friedmann

On pure theory- "the fact that the ultimate authority in any given legal order may be a composite one, as in the USA or great britain, does not alter the fact that such an ultimate authority must exist"

Friedmann

On Kelsen- "the merciless way in which Kelsen has uncovered the political ideology hidden in the theories which profess to state objective truth has had a very wholesone effect on the whole field of legal theory. The chief merit of his theory would seems to lie in the elucidation if the relation between the initial hypothesis and the totality of legal relations derived from it"

Friedmann