Fundamental Legal Conceptions As Applied in Judicial Reasoning by Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld

Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, born in 1879, died prematurely in 1918. He left only a few law journal articles as his published work. His ''Fundamental Legal Conceptions'', originally published as two articles in the ''Yale Law Journal'' for 1913 and 1917 and left incompletely revised at his death is, however, one of the principal foundations of analytic jurisprudence. The analysis of rights that Hohf...