tional conventions or cricket etiquette). The scheme of classification will depend on our purpose—for classification is a means to an end, not an end in itself.* the class so constituted, distinguishing them from others. It is himself. Since there may well be rules governing to be used by

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tional conventions or cricket etiquette). The scheme of classification will depend on our purpose—for classification is a means to an end, not an end in itself.* the class so constituted, distinguishing them from others. It is himself. Since there may well be rules governing to be used by

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ABSTRACT

The nineteenth century jurist John Austin was moving towards something like this view of the structure of a legal system, in his famous Lectures on Jurisprudence. From him sprang the school of analytical jurisprudence which until very recently dominated English legal studies.