Law in the making / Carleton Kemp Allen.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1946.

4th edition

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Law -- Sources.

Jurisprudence.

Law -- Great Britain.

Introduction: law and its sources

Chapter I: Custom: nature and origin

I. Nature of custom

II. Origin of custom

Chapter II: Custom: interpretation & application

I. Interpretation of custom

II. Application of custom

Excursus A: Custom as law

Chapter III: Precedent: nature and history

I. Theory of judicial decision

II. Growth of precedent in English law

Chapter IV: Precedent: authority and operation

I. General rules for application of precedents in English law

II. Authority of precedent

III. Working of legal induction

IV. Practical value of precedents

Chapter V: Equity

I. Law and justice

II. Philosophical conception of equity

III. Equity in English law

IV. Equity as source of law

Chapter VI: Legislation

I. Place of legislation among sources of law

II. Forms of legislation

III. Force of legislation

IV. Scope and duration of legislation

V. Interpretation of legislation

Excursus B: Statutory interpretation

Chapter VII: Subordinate & autonomic legislation

I. Growth of the principle of devolution

II. Chief spheres of delegated legislation

III. Relation between sovereign and subordinate

IV. Juristic meaning of present tendencies

Appendix A: Judicial tests of foreign custom

Appendix B: Reasonableness of custom

Appendix B: Precedent in equity.

Includes index.

xxxi, 564 pages ; 23 cm