Bentham
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Benthamite · Jeremy Bentham
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Jurist and reformer whose name designates the individualist legislative tradition contrasted with collectivism.
Nor was municipal trading during the Benthamite era in harmony with the liberalism of the day.
Benthamite Liberals have looked upon men mainly, and too exclusively, as separate persons, each of whom must by his own efforts work out his own happiness and well-being;
That legislation should, for the present and for an indefinite time to come, deviate farther and farther from the lines laid down by Bentham, and followed by the Liberals of 1830, need, however, cause no surprise.
Ancient Law
Modern jurist whose definition of contract is compared to Roman doctrine of Convention and Obligation.
Austin have laid down that the “two main essentials of a contract are these:
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
English jurist credited with the term Adjective Law used by the Analytical Jurists.
On the expression just mentioned, Adjective Law, with which Bentham and his school have familiarised us, I will make a remark which applies to much in the phraseology and classifications of the Analytical Jurists, that it is correct and convenient according to the ideas of their day, but that, if used of very old law, it is apt to lead to an historical misconception.