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Be Bold!

Sam [Spade] 14:33, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

We must be related - my mother's family were Crebbins. Dbiv 21:36, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

hello Crebbin. Thanks for your bold statements about the page being a mess - I thought so too, and it might pay to look at the previous revisions. Then again, it doesn't help merely to criticise. It's better to do. You may want to do a little more reading before you attempt cosmetic alterations to the first paragraph. For instance, John Stuart Mill wrote a very good book called 'On Liberty' which talks about the harm principle. So unless you've got some examples of where intentional harm to other people's property doesn't result in criminality, I wouldn't be so brash! It's really important not to attempt a definition of law too, because that's what jurisprudence is about. Read Austin, Hart, Raz, Dworkin and compare the different definitions. Something different belongs in the first paragraph. Hopefully if you're doing your CPE (or LPC?) you can find lots of references - the more the better on a page like this, and we can help get the law page in shape! User:Wikidea
 * Replied at Wikidea's talk page. Crebbin 18:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC).

Hi Crebbin, your definition of law, on the discussion page there is, funnily enough, exactly what many very eminent academics argued for - if you have a look at a book by HLA Hart, called Concept of Law, which will definitely be in the Nottingham Law School library, and just the first few pages, 'law is what the courts do' is one of the answers he mentions and 'law is a system of rules' is one of the ideas that he proposes. That was back in the sixties, but the debate has gotten increasingly complicated since. The problem is, is 'system of rules' really a definition? Or a kind of synonym? And what's a definition? When Samuel Johnson was writing the first English dictionary, that became the Oxford Dictionary, he wanted to give a universal account of the English language. But he became increasingly disillusioned with the entire venture of trying to pin down some quantifiable value on each word, and ended up using the method we have today in the big dictionaries - recording passages and usages from a range of old sources, to try and capture not what the word meant to people, but what the word had meant for people. If you look at the 30 odd volume edition of the dictionary, that's what you see, all those recorded passages, which never quite fit into categories. User:Wikidea

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