Landmark work in the history of jurisprudence. " ...of all books upon law, the most consummate and masterly." John Austin, The Providence of Jurisprudence Determined , xxxviii.
The only English translation of his first work, and originally published in German in 1803, this Treatise on the nature of the legal concept of possession made Savigny\'s reputation as a jurist of the first order. xvi, 432 pp.
Sweet, 1848.
Originally published: London: R.
Landmark work in the history of jurisprudence