Doctor And Student: Or, Dialogues Between A Doctor Of Divinity, And A Student In The Laws Of England - Softcover

Christopher Saint German

Softcover

ISBN 10: 046131309X ISBN 13: 9780461313093

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Doctor And Student: Or, Dialogues Between A Doctor Of Divinity, And A Student In The Laws Of England: Containing The Grounds Of Those Laws, Together With Questions And Cases by Christopher Saint German is a sixteenth-century legal-philosophical work that presents a series of dialogues exploring the foundations and sources of English law. The book frames law through a hierarchy of principles: the eternal law, the law of nature (law of reason), the law of God, and the law of man, and surveys how they interact with natural rights, custom, equity, and statute. Through conversations between a Doctor of Divinity and a Student in the Laws of England, the text analyzes inheritance, contracts, property, damages, punishment, conscience, and the tensions between canon and civil law in England. It aims to reconcile law with reason and conscience, explaining how Parliament, the courts, and ecclesiastical authorities shape the common law and its many complexities. The work is foundational for understanding the sources and philosophy of English law and its relation to moral principles.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046131309X
• ISBN 13: 9780461313093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416