Of The Vocation Of Our Age For Legislation And Jurisprudence

Savigny, Frederick Charles von. Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence. Translated by Abraham Hayward. London: Littlewood, [1831]. ix, [9]-192 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001041396. ISBN 1-58477-189-5. Cloth. $65. * Written in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Vocation proposed a common legal code for the newly liberated German states, and attacked Thibaut's advocacy of a code based on natural law. Though he aimed in part to improve the administration of justice, von Savigny [1779-1861] hoped that a common legal system would serve a larger goal: the promotion of a spirit of unity among Germans.

Written in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Vocation proposed a common legal code for the newly liberated German states, and attacked Thibaut's advocacy of a code based on natural law. Though he aimed in part to improve the administration of justice, von Savigny [1779-1861] hoped that a common legal system would serve a larger goal: the promotion of a spirit of unity among Germans.

Landmark work in the history of jurisprudence. Originally published: London: R. Sweet, 1848. xvi, 432 pp. The only English translation of his first work, and originally published in German in 1803, this treatise on the nature of the legal concept of possession made Savigny's reputation as a jurist of the first order. "...of all books upon law, the most consummate and masterly." John Austin, The Providence of Jurisprudence Determined, xxxviii

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