The Elements of Jurisprudence, Twelfth Edition.
Holland, Thomas Erskine, [1835-1926]. The Elements of Jurisprudence, Twelfth Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1917. xxv, 454 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and blind frames to boards. Light shelfwear. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to front pastedown. Number stamp to verso title page, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy. $65. * Twelfth edition. A foundational work in legal theory, presenting an analytical and philosophical perspective on the principles of law. Holland's work was highly influential in the early 20th century and was characterized by Albert Kocourek as "the most successful of all jurisprudence books". "The legal systems of the continent owe to their common derivation from the law of Rome, not only a uniform legal nomenclature, but also a generally accepted method, which at once assigns any newly developed principle to its proper place, and has greatly facilitated the orderly exposition of those systems in the form of codes" (Preface to the first edition, [v]). Joseph M. Gleason [1869-1942] was a Catholic priest, historian and collector.
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