Legal System and Lawyers' Reasonings

This is the first of three works in which it is sought to survey the contemporary problems falling within the field of jurisprudence. Its purpose is to study the processes of judicial and juristic thought, and the place therein of logic and other kinds of reasoning; and to do this against a background understanding of the elements of unity and disunity within a going legal order. For this reason it is sought to set the study within an orderly examination of the nature and definitions and basic conceptions of Law. *172