Matthew Hale: On the Law of Nature, Reason, and Common Law: Selected Jurisprudential Writings

by Matthew Hale

Lawyer, judge, public figure, historian, theologian, and amateur natural philosopher, Sir Matthew Hale worked and wrote in the middle decades of the seventeenth century, perhaps the most turbulent period of English political history. His reflections on reason, law, and political authority, unpublished in his lifetime, are collected in this volume. It sets Hale's previously unpublished Treatise on the Nature of Laws in General and touching the Law...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199234922
• ISBN13: 9780199234929
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.4"