The Province of Jurisprudence Determined.
Austin, John. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. London: John Murray, 1832. xx, 391, lxxvi. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 1984. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Small water stain to text block edge, otherwise internally clean. A fine copy. $25. * The Province of Jurisprudence exercised enormous influence in England. "The importance of his work was the strict delimitation of the sphere of law and its distinction from that of morality, elaboration of the idea of law as a kind of command, and the close examination of the connotations of such common legal terms as right, duty, liberty, injury [and] punishment....": Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law 96.
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