Author : Friedrich Karl von Savigny
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584771895
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence by : Friedrich Karl von Savigny
Download or read book Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence written by Friedrich Karl von Savigny and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.