Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld (August 9, 1879 – October 21, 1918) was an American jurist. He was the author of the seminal Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied ...
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
American jurist
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld was an American jurist. He was the author of the seminal Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning and Other Legal Essays.
During his brief life, he published only a handful of law review articles. Wikipedia
Born: August 9, 1879, Oakland, CA
Died: October 21, 1918 (age 39 years), Alameda, CA
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This post is a quick and dirty introduction to Hohfeld for law students (especially first year law students) with an interest in legal theory.
Arguably, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld is the greatest legal theorist America has ever produced. In 1913, the Stanford University Professor submitted to the Yale ...
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld's 1913 article, Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, is widely viewed as brilliant.
What Hohfeld's analysis does is to consider that complex moral and normative justificatory considerations are present outside of rights-elements. This avoids ...
Contents · 1 - Hohfeld on Legal Language · 2 - Rights Correlativity · 3 - Hohfeld and Rules · 4 - Logic and the Life of the Law (Professor): A Logocratic Lesson ...
In general,. Hohfeld's rights, duties, powers, etc., all come from the rules of positive law. The Source of Hohfeld's "Duty". The term "duty" is commonly used ...
The great merit of the four terms selected by Hohfeld for this purpose-right, privilege, power and immunity-is that they are already familiar to lawyers and ...
Hohfeld believed that this looseness of usage could be remedied by distinguishing eight fundamental legal concepts, the "lowest common denominators of the law," ...
Property's Building Blocks: Hohfeld in Europe and Beyond
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The central insight of Hohfeldian analysis is commonly taken to be that property is not a single “thing” but rather a “bundle of rights” with respect to things ...