Excerpt from Elements of Jurisprudence, Vol. 1: Being Selections From Dumont's Digest of the Works of Bentham; Codification To give a clear conception of the true nature and limits of the science of Jurisprudence, it will be necessary, in the first place, to explain the distino tion between the study of law as an art, and as a science and further, to point out the principle of division by which the boundaries of the social sciences are distinguished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.