Theory of legislation (translated from the French of Etienne Dumont) / Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bentham, Jeremy, author.

Dumont, Etienne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 472 pages)

Other Title:

Theory of legislation

Place of Publication:

London : Trübner & Co, 1864.

Summary:

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.

Contents:

Principles of legislation

Principles of the Civil code

Principles of the Penal code.

Notes:

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