Jurisprudence - Legal Theories and Philosophers

(3) The classification of Jurisprudence has been provided by Bentham.

(3) Utilitarian thinkers do not argue that laws which do not benefit the greater good are invalid, but that a law is a good law only if it maximises the happiness or well-being of the greater number.

(1) Positivism studies law in the sense of norms produced by the people who are entitled to create them, irrespective of the democratic nature of the law-making institutions.

(2) Jurisprudence includes the value of the law and is not only how the law works or what the law is.

(3) Analytical jurisprudence is dedicated to establishing what the law is.

(2) The philosophy of natural law does not see law as an emanation of nature, but as a social necessity which reflects universal principles grounded on the nature of human beings.

(3) Possession was said to be ownership on the defensive by Ihering.

(3) Realist theory of law emphasises on social criterion of validity of law.

(2) Four sets of various Hohfeldian jural relations are duty/liberty, right/no-right, liability/immunity and power/disability.

(1) The propounder of “Pigeon-hole theory” is Salmond.

(3) Ihering defined law as "the form of guarantee of the conditions of life of society, assured by the states' power of constraint".

(1) 'Limits of Jurisprudence Defined’ is written by Jeremy Bentham.

(1) The term ‘legal theory’ was coined by Hans Kelsen.

(4) According to Holland, International law is the vanishing point of jurisprudence. By using the words "vanishing point" in relation to international law and jurisprudence, he meant that international law and jurisprudence are parallel to each other, and they therefore are distinct and separate, though it might be appearing that they are one and the same at vanishing point.

(1) ‘Will Theory’ was criticised by John Locke.