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Hohfeld: FUNDAMENTAL LEGAL CONCEPTIONS
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld

Gryphon Editions, 2000

Walter Wheeler Cook described these writings by his Yale Law School colleague, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (1879-1918), as follows:"No more 'practical' legal work was ever done than that which is found in the pages of Hohfeld's writings," Among the great messages Hohfeld gave the legal profession, says Cook is that "an adequate analytical jurisprudence is an absolutely indispensable tool in the equipment of the properly trained lawyer or judge."

Fundamental Legal Conceptions As Applied in Judicial Reasoning (Classical Jurisprudence Series)

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Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld

Dartmouth Pub Co, 2002

An early book on Deontic Logic, from 1913 Yale Law Journal
This book is a reprint of two Yale Law Journal articles from 1913 and 1917, and the 1964 reprint was a republication of the 1919 edition. The author, Professor Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, distinguished four different types of "legal relations" or "rights" including right-duty; privileges; powers and immunities. The last two relate to the ability to create or discharge the first two. The ...