James Fitzjames Stephen
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
J. F. Stephen · Mr. Fitzjames Stephen · Stephen
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Critic of Hobbes and Austin credited with the concept of 'dormant anarchy' and with remarks on ancient Sovereignty.
Fitzjames Stephen, insists that there is a condition of dormant anarchy, and the reservation is doubtless made to meet such cases as that of the United States before the War of Secession.
The critic of Hobbes and Austin, whom I before quoted, writes, ‘in every state of which we read, whether Greek, Phœnician, Italian, or Asiatic, there was a Sovereign of some sort whose authority was absolute while it lasted;
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Author of the History of the Criminal Law of England, cited repeatedly as an authority on criminal procedure and terminology.
Stephen, History of Criminal Law, I.
Stephen, History of Criminal Law, 105–7, gives further details.
Stephen, Hist.