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LLB 3 years · Sem 4
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Q.1
Q.1: Answer all ten questions
20 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What does the term Jurisprudence mean?[2]
Answer
Jurisprudence is the systematic study of law itself: what law is, where it comes from, and what its basic concepts mean. The word comes from the Latin juris, "of law", and prudentia, "knowledge" or "skill". So jurisprudence literally means knowledge of law.
The leading definitions.
- Ulpian (Roman jurist): the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust.
- Austin: "the philosophy of positive law".
- Holland: "the formal science of positive law".
- Salmond: "the science of the first principles of the civil law", meaning the law of the land.
- Keeton: the study and systematic arrangement of the general principles of law.
- Roscoe Pound: the science of law, which he saw as social engineering.
What it studies. It studies the concepts that every branch of law uses but none defines: right, duty, person, property, possession, ownership and obligation. It also studies the sources of law and the schools of legal thought.
A short definition for the exam. Jurisprudence is the science of law: the theoretical study of the nature of law, its sources, and its fundamental concepts. Holland's image sums up its value: jurisprudence is to law what grammar is to a language.
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