ABSTRACT
Unlike the other chapters of Essential Jurisprudence, this first chapter sets the scene on the whole area of jurisprudence. It is the aim of this chapter to identify and to clarify some of the more general issues and questions which confront a student approaching jurisprudence as a subject for the first time. Such questions usually concern matters relating to an initial appreciation of the nature and scope of the subject, as well as the mode and purpose of the enquiry which it involves. In the main, these are questions of definition, content and relevance, such as those listed above.
