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Author / Creator:Ruiter, D. W. P. (Dick Willem Peter), 1943-
Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001.
Description:ix, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Law and philosophy library ; v. 55
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4564533
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ISBN:140200186X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. A New Conceptual Framework
  • 1. Occam's Razor
  • 2. Legal Acts and Institutional Legal Facts
  • 3. Revocatory and Invalidating Legal Acts
  • 4. How to Preserve Logic?
  • 5. Elementary Propositions and Situations
  • 6. Legal Judgments and Legal Situations
  • 7. Recapitulation of Problems
  • 8. Distinction between Revoking and Invalidating
  • 9. Founding the Principle of Contradiction
  • 10. General Acceptance
  • 11. Conflicts of Obligations
  • 12. Conclusions
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 2. Kinds of Legal Judgments and Legal Situations
  • 1. From Legal Acts to Legal Judgments
  • 2. Prescriptive Legal Judgments
  • 2.1. Prescriptions and Proscriptions
  • 2.2. Licences and Exemptions
  • 3. Directive Legal Judgments
  • 4. Assertory Legal Judgments
  • 5. Expressive Legal Judgments
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 3. Legal Rules
  • 1. Particular and Abstract Legal Judgments
  • 2. Empirical Laws and Legal Rules
  • 3. Juridico-Causal Relationships
  • 4. Legal Rules: Types of Legal Consequences
  • 5. Legal Rules: Domains of Operative Facts
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 4. Legal Institutions
  • 1. Institutional Legal Concepts and Legal Institutions
  • 2. Constitutive and Institutive Rules: Functional Distinction
  • 3. Constitutive and Institutive Rules: Analytic Distinction
  • 4. Categorisation
  • 5. An Example: Treaties
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 5. Categories of Legal Institutions
  • 1. Classiication of Particular Propositions and Legal Judgments
  • 2. Kinds of Institutional Legal Concepts
  • 3. Legal Persons
  • 4. Legal Objects
  • 5. Legal Qualities
  • 6. Legal Status
  • 7. Personal Legal Relationships
  • 8. Legal Conigurations
  • 9. Objective Legal Relationships
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 6. Unwitten Law
  • 1. Categories of Unwritten Law
  • 2. Custom, Habit, Acceptance and Social Morality
  • 3. Legal Principles and Morally Grounded Customary Law
  • 4. Customary Legal Institutions
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 7. Perfection and Legal Validity
  • 1. Explicit and Implicit Criteria of Perfection
  • 2. Criteria of Perfection and Legal Principles
  • 3. Suspension and Voidability
  • 4. Nullity
  • Conceptual Recapitulation
  • Chapter 8. Recapitulation of the Conceptual Framework
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Recapitulation
  • Chapter 9. Applying the Conceptual Framework
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Constitutive Rule and Institutive Rules
  • 3. Personal, Procedural and Substantive Institutive Rules
  • 4. Consequential Rules
  • 5. Terminative Rules
  • 6. Voidance
  • 7. Summary in Terms of Conceptual Framework
  • Supplement
  • Bibliography
  • Index Of Authors
  • Index Of Subjects