Legislation
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Ancient Law
Enactments of a legislature deriving binding force from external authority rather than inherent principle.
These in strumentalities seem to me to be three in number, Legal Fictions, Equity, and Legislation.
Cornelius Sylla, by causing to be enacted the great group of statutes called the Leges Corneliœ, had shown what rapid and speedy improvements can be effected by direct legislation.
Legislation, the enactments of a legislature which, whether it take the form of an autocratic prince or of a parliamentary assembly, is the assumed organ of the entire society, is the last of the ameliorating instrumentalities.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The study of law as it ought to be, Bentham's chief concern, contrasted with Austin's jurisprudence.
Bentham is chiefly concerned with law as it might be and ought to be.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Legislative enactments used by government to criminalize acts regardless of intrinsic criminality
because the acts forbidden by the statutes were so plainly innocent in their nature, that even the government itself had not the face to allege that the commission of them implied or indicated any criminal intent.
All the efforts of the government, therefore, to “make offences by statute,” out of acts that are not criminal by nature, must necessarily be ineffectual, unless a jury will declare a man “guilty” for an act that is really innocent.
Natural Law, or the Science of Justice
Human-made law and law-making, contrasted throughout with natural law and portrayed as an assumption of dominion by one class over another.
If there be no such science as justice, there can be no science of government;
These laws have continued in force for hundreds, and, in some countries, for thousands of years;
On the other hand, if there be no such natural principle as justice, there can be no such thing as injustice.