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Duration 2 hours · Total marks 60 · 22 questions answered
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Q.1
Q.1: Answer any six questions in one or two sentences
12 Marks - 2 marks each
(a)What do you mean by Analytical Jurisprudence?[2]
Answer
Analytical jurisprudence is the study of law as it is, in a developed legal system. It does not ask how the law came to be or whether it is good. It analyses the basic ideas the law uses, such as right, duty, person, property, possession, ownership and sanction, and fixes their meaning precisely. It is also called the analytical, imperative, positivist or English school.
Its main features.
- Law as it is, not as it ought to be. The existence of a law is one question; its merit is another.
- Law is made by the State. Law is the command of the sovereign, or a rule made by a competent authority.
- Legislation is the typical form of law. Custom and precedent count only when the State adopts them.
- Method of analysis. It breaks legal concepts into their elements and arranges them systematically.
Its jurists. Jeremy Bentham was its forerunner and John Austin its founder, through The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832). Holland, Salmond and Hohfeld developed it, and Kelsen and H.L.A. Hart gave it modern form.
Its limit. By excluding history, morality and the working of law in society, it cannot explain why law changes or whether a law is just. The historical, natural law and sociological schools grew partly in reaction to it.
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