This brief summary demonstrates how Austin’s theory of legal system is virtually a by-product of his definition of ‘a law’. Both the theory and the definition revolve around and presuppose the applicability of one concept—the concept of sovereignty.
Even one of the great critics, Olivecrona, also acknowledges him as the pioneer of modern positivist approach to law. Thus Austin made great contribution to jurisprudence. Austin says, “every law is a command imposing a duty enforced by a sanction, however, all the commands are not law”. It is only the general command which is a law.
Austin in effect defines ‘a law’ as ‘a general command of a sovereign addressed to his subjects’. His theory of legal system is implicit in this definition.
Simply put, Austin describes Law as flowing from a political superior to its subjects, backed with a system of sanction. The term Legal Positivism means the attempt to establish Law as a true science. The Imperative theory of law is based on an understanding of Law which is free of moralistic notions and merely a collection of empirical rules.
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This theory was developed to a great extent by jurists such as. John Austin and Jeremy Bentham around the 18th and 19th century. Subsequently this school of. |
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In modern jurisprudence it is taken as axiomatic that John Austin's sanction-based account of law and legal obligation was demolished in H.L.A.. Hart's The |
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Austin asserts that "Every positive law simply and strictly so called, is set by a sovereign person, or sovereign body of persons, to a person or persons in a state of subjection to its author "1 Laws get their force from the threat of sanction |
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Rumble, Divine Law, Utilitarian Ethics, and Positivist Jurisprudence: A Study of the Legal Philosophy the unity presupposed by Austin's theory of sovereignty |
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theory of law, the de fi nition of positive law as the command of the sovereign, his contemporary legal theory, as well as to assess Austin's problematic relation |
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SANCTION AND OBLIGATION* H L A Harts criticism of Austins
H L A Hart's criticism of Austin's theory of law is that it is essential ly false to the facts Austin asserts that "Every positive law simply and strictly so called, is set |
[PDF] Summary of John Austins Legal Positivism: John Austin (1790-1859
John Austin (1790 1859) was a nineteenth century British legal philosopher who formulated the first systematic alternative to both natural law theories of law and |
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