Questions and Notes on Definitions of Jurisprudence 1

Questions and Notes on Definitions of Jurisprudence

1.      The word “jurisprudence” is derived from Latin word jurisprudential which in its widest sense meand `knowledge of law` or skill in law. The Latin word juris mens law and prudential means knowledge or skill.

2.      Who said about jurisprudence that is is “the observation of things, human and divine, the knowledge of just and the unjust”?

Ulpian

3.      Who said “That which is signified by a command and leads to an man`s material and piritual salvation”?

Jaimini

4.      Who said “Jurisprudence is the philosophical aspect of knowledge of law”?

Cicero

5.      Who said “Jurisprudence is the science of law, the statement and systematic arrangement of the rules followed by the courts and the principle involved in those rules”?

Gray

6.      Who said “Jurisprudence is the science of the first principles of civil law”?

Salmond

7.      Who wrote the book `Elementa Philosphiae`?

Hobbes

8.      Who said “Jurisprudence is the philosophy of positive law”?

Austin

9.      What is General and Particular jurisprudence according to Austin?

General Jurisprudence means the science concerned with exposition of the principles of nations which are common to all the systems of law whereas particular jurisprudence consisted of the science of any such system of positive law as now obtains or once actually obtained specifically determined nation.

10.  Who said “Jurisprudence is the formal science of positive law”?

Holland

11.  Who said “Positive law is a general rule of external human action enforced by a sovereign political authority”?

Holland

12.  Who said “Jurisprudence is the scientific synthesis of the essential principles of law”?

Allen

13.  Who said “Jurisprudence is the study and scientific synthesis of the general principles of law”?

Keeton

14.  Hart beleieved that union of primary and secondary rules explains the nature of law and provides key to science of jurisprudence. By primary rules he meant rules which impose duty while secondary confer powers which provide for creation or variation of duties by removing defects of primary rules.

15.  Who said “Jurisprudence is the science of law using the term `law` in the judicial sense as denoting the body of principles recognized by public and regular tribunals in the administration of justice”?

Pound

16.  Who said “Jurisprudence, ethics, economics, politics and sociology are distinct enough as the core but shade out into each other”?

Pound

17.  Who said “Jurisprudence is as the shining but unfulfilled dream of a world governed by reason”?

Arnold

18.  Who said “Jurisprudence is part of history, a part of economics and sociology, a part of ethics and a philosophy of life”?

Radcliffe

19.  Who said that Jurisprudence is as a body of ordered knowledge which deals with a particular species of law?

Patterson

20.  Who said “All bodies of principles, decisions and enactments made passed or approved by the legally constituted authorities or agencies in a State for regulating rights, duties, liabilities and enforced through the mechanism of judicial process, securing obedience to the sovereign authority in the State, are civil laws”?

Dr MJ Sethna

21.  Who said “All systematic thinking about legal theory is linked at one end with philosophy and at the other end, with political theory”?

Freidmann

22.  Who said “The end of law is based on conceptions of man, both as thinking individual and a political being”?

Freidmann

23.  Ronald Dworkin propounded interpretive jurisorudence and held that the interpretation which best suits in the circumstances of the case should be takedn into consideration in decising a case.

24.  Who said “Jurisprudence covers a wider field of study as compared to legal theory for the former involves an investigation of law which is of an abstract, general and theoretical nature while legal theory in the other hand is an attempt to anser what is law in order to clarify the most of all legal concepts”?

Fitzgerald

25.  Who said “Jurisprudence is lawyer`s exta version. It is the lawyers examination of precepts and techniques of law in the light derived from present knowledge in disciplines other than law”?

Stone

26.  Who said “the law embodies the story of a nations development through many centuries and it cannot be dealt with as if containing only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics”?

Holmes

27.  Who said “the ever renewed complexity of human relations calls for an increasing complexity of legal details, till a merely empirical knowledge of law becomes impossible”?

Holland

28.  Who called Jurisprudence as the `eye of law`?

Laski

29.  Who defined comparative jurisprudence as “It is a term which suggests the use of comparative method as a tool to find out differences and similarities between the different legal systems”?

Gutteridge

30.  In which case the Supreme Court of India held that “Law is a social engineering to remove the existing imbalance and to further the progress, serving the needs of the Social Democratic Blunt”?

Delhi Transport Corporation v DTDC Mazdoor Congress 

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