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The concept of law (Record no. 12267)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 0195664175
Terms of availability TZS 14,328.344
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MCCL
Language of cataloging eng.
Description conventions AACR 2nd rev ed.
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 340.1 HAR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus)
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The concept of law
Statement of responsibility, etc / H. L. A. Hart
250 ## - Edition Statement
Edition statement 2nd ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Oxford :
Name of publisher Oxford university press,
Year of publication 1961.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xii, 315 p. :
Dimensions 22 cm.
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Clarendon law series
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes index
505 ## - Formatted Contents
Formatted contents note I. Persistent Questions<br/>1. Perplexities of legal theory<br/>2. Three recurrent issues<br/>3. Definition<br/>II. Laws, Commands, and Orders<br/>1. Varieties of imperatives<br/>2. Law as coercive orders<br/>III. The Variety of Law<br/>1. The content of law<br/>2. The range of application<br/>3. Modes of origin<br/>IV. Sovereign and Subject<br/>1. The habit of obedience and the continuity of law<br/>2. The persistence of law<br/>3. Legal limitations on legislative power<br/>4. The sovereign behind the legislature<br/>V. Law as the Union of Primary and Secondary Rules<br/>1. A fresh start<br/>2. The idea of obligation<br/>3. The elements of law<br/>VI. The Foundations of a Legal System<br/>1. Rule of recognition and legal validity<br/>2. New questions<br/>3. The pathology of a legal system<br/>VII. Formalism and Rule-Scepticism<br/>1. The open texture of law<br/>2. Varieties of rule-scepticism<br/>3. Finality and infallibility in judicial decision<br/>4. Uncertainty in the rule of recognition<br/>VIII. Justice and Morality<br/>1. Principles of justice<br/>2. Moral and legal obligation<br/>3. Moral ideals and social criticism<br/>IX. Laws and Morals<br/>1. Natural law and legal positivism<br/>2. The minimum content of natural law<br/>3. Legal validity and moral value<br/>X. International Law<br/>1. Sources of doubt<br/>2. Obligations and sanctions<br/>3. Obligation and the sovereignty of states<br/>4. International law and morality<br/>5. Analogies of form and content<br/>Postscript<br/>Introductory<br/>1. The Nature of Legal Theory<br/>2. The Nature of Legal Positivism<br/>(i) Positivism as a semantic theory<br/>(ii) Positivism as an interpretive theory<br/>(iii) Soft positivism<br/>3. The Nature of Rules<br/>(i) The practice theory of rules<br/>(ii) Rules and principles<br/>4. Principles and the Rule of Recognition<br/>Pedigree and interpretation<br/>5. Law and Morality<br/>(i) Rights and duties<br/>(ii) The identification of the law<br/>6. Judicial Discretion
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Language note eng.
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Topical Term Law philosophy
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Topical Term Jurisprudence methodology
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Topical Term Jurisprudence
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Topical Term Law
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        Mzumbe University-Mbeya Campus Library Mzumbe University-Mbeya Campus Library 01/06/2009 R.K. Printing 340.1 HAR 001197 1 08/10/2025 Book
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