1917/06/01 by Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld · 4 citations
Social Sciences · #Evolving Legal Systems and Governance #Legal principles and applications #Legal processes and jurisprudence
paper · doi:10.2307/786270
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The present discussion, while intended to be intrinsically completeso far as intelligent and convenient perusal is concerned,represents, as originally planned, a continuation of an articlewhich appeared under the same title more than three years ago.It therefore seems desirable to indicate, in very general form,the scope and purpose of the latter. The main divisions wereentitled: Legal Conceptions Contrasted with Non-legal Conceptions;Operative Facts Contrasted with Evidential Facts; andFundamental Jural Relations Contrasted with One Another. Thejural relations analyzed and discussed under the last subtitle were,at the outset, grouped in a convenient "scheme of opposites andcorrelatives"; and it will greatly facilitate the presentation ofthe matters to be hereafter considered if that scheme be reproducedat the present point: