Making law bind : essays legal and philosophical / Tony Honoré

Author:: Honoré, Tony, 1921-2019
Published:: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Copyright Date:: ©1986
Physical Description:: vii, 274 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents:

How is law possible? -- Groups, laws, and obedience -- What is a group? -- Real laws -- The basic norm of a society -- Nécessité oblige -- The social contract interpreted -- Ownership -- Social justice -- Property, title, and redistribution -- The human community and majority rule -- Rights and the rightless -- Law, morals, and rescue.

Subject(s):

Law—Philosophy
Sociological jurisprudence

ISBN:

0198254679

Note:

One essay translated from Spanish.
Chiefly revised versions of previously published essays.
Includes index.

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