S R Sharma

Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence

      Anmol. New. Contents: Vol. I. Jurisprudence: Preface. 1. Jurisprudence: an overview. 2. Conventionalism. 3. Pragmatism and personification. 4. Integrity. 5. Integrity in law. 6. Police practices. 7. Dirty business. 8. Illegitimate insularity. 9. The black goes free. 10. No caste here. 11. Laissez-faire. 12. Free trade. 13. The sociology of law and sociology of jurisprudence. Index.|~|Vol. II. Laws and Politics: Preface. 1. The common law. 2. Statutes. 3. The constitution. 4. Politics and criminal law: revision of the New York State Penal Law on prostitution. 5. Organization and process in the administration of law and control of deviance. 6. Police control of juveniles. 7. Violence and the police. 8. Securing police compliance with constitutional limitations: the exclusionary rule and other devices. 9. Disposition of cases in control agencies. 10. Constitutional moralism and the politics of advice and consent. Index.|~|Vol. III. Evolution of Law and Society: Preface. 1. Law in a primitive society. 2. Social evolution and legal evolution. 3. Functions of courts. 4. The judges. 5. The lawyers. 6. Social control and social order. 7. Law and legal study. 8. Sources of law. 9. The civil court structure. 10. The criminal court structure. 11. Legal science and social science. 12. Law as a type of social control. 13. Social and political forces on the law: law as dependent. Index.|~|Vol. IV. American Legal System: Preface. 1. American theory of justice. 2. Law and judicial reform in America. 3. The new century. 4. Regulation of the legal profession. 5. Legal education. 6. Professional reform. 7. Pragmatic instrumentalism in American law. Index. |~|Vol. V. English Legal System: Preface. 1. English idioms from the penal law. 2. A ministry of justice. 3. Essays or counsels civil and moral: of judicature. 4. The forty years of the Irish Bar. 5. Some aspects of the work of the court of appeal. 6. The punishments of convicts. 7. A simple statement. 8. While collar crime. 9. Judicial precedent in England. 10. Remedies in private law. 11. Remedies against public authorities, inferior courts and tribunals. 12. An admonition. 13. Counsel of deception. Index.|~|"Jurisprudence is the science or body of ordered knowledge which deals with a particular species of law. Law may be defined as the force or tendency which makes for righteousness. We may at once deny for jurisprudence any direct concern with the non human contents of the universe. Natural laws or the physical laws are not the work of the jurist. The study of jurisprudence concerns human thought in relation to social existence.|~|"In a wide sense "jurisprudence" is used also to describe the legal connections of any body of knowledge: so "dental jurisprudence", "architectural jurisprudence" or "medical jurisprudence" would be titles for expositions of such aspects of dentistry, architecture or medicine as may be important in law. In French law jurisprudence is the term(s) applied to the body of law built-up by the decisions of particular courts.|~|"At the present time jurisprudence may tentatively be described as any thought or writing about law and its relation to other disciplines, such as philosophy, psychology, economics, anthropology, etc. It is to be distinguished from expositions of the law itself. The present work in five volumes encompasses encyclopaedia information on various aspects of jurisprudence." (jacket) . ISBN: 81-261-1474-6.