文档介绍：CLARENDON LAW SERIES
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CLARENDON LAW SERIES
Introduction to the Law of Property
By
Introduction to the Law of Contract
By . 1961
The Concept of Law
By . 1961
Administrative Law
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Oxford University Press,Amen House ,London
GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI KUALA LUMPUR
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©Oxford University Press 1961
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PREFACE
My aim in this book has been to further the understanding of law,
coercion, and morality as different but related social phenomena.
Though it is primarily designed for the student of jurisprudence, I
hope it may also be of use to those whose chief interests are in
moral or political philosophy, or in sociology, rather than in law.
The lawyer will regard the book as an essay in analytical
jurisprudence, for it is concerned with the clarification of the
general framework of legal thought, rather than with the criticism
of law or legal policy. Moreover, at many points, I have raised
questions which may well be said to be about the meanings of
words. Thus I have considered: how 'being obliged' differs from
'having an obligation'; how the statement that a rule is a valid rule
of law differs from a predic- tion of the behaviour of officials;
what is meant by the assertion that a social group observes a rule
and how this differs from and resembles the assertion that its
members habitually do certain things. Indeed, one of the central
themes of the book is that neither law nor any other form of social
structure can be untter-stood without an appreciation of certain
crucial distinctions between two different kinds of statement,