THE LAW MAGAZINE AND LAW REVIEW, OR, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence. MAY to AUGUST, 1856. VOLUME I. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE PROPRIETOR, BY BUTTERWORTHS, 7, FLEET STREET, WARK, EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, AND BELL & BRADFUTE. DUBLIN: HODGES & SMITH. 1856. THE Law Magazine & Law Review: OR, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. No. I. -- ART. I. HISTORY OF JURISPRUDENCE-THE WRITINGS OF PUFFENDORF AND LEIBNITZ.1 AMUEL BARON VON PUFFENDORF was born in SAM 1632. He was educated at the University of Jena, where he studied the Cartesian philosophy. In 1661, he was appointed Professor of the Law of Nature and Nations, at Heidelberg, and afterwards at Lund. He died in 1694, at Berlin. He discussed Natural Law as a separate question, independent of the obligations of Revealed Religion or Positive Civil Law. His works are," Elementa Jurisprudentiæ Universalis ;" "De Jure Naturæ et Gentium;" "De Officio Hominis et Civis." He promulgated the principle of Sociability which Grotius had started. The edition of Puffendorf "De Legibus Nature" which we have before us is a heavy folio of 900 pages, closely printed in double columns, " done into English by Basil Kennett, D.D., late President of Corpus Christi College, in Oxford." The English 'This sketch of the History of Jurisprudence is continued from The Law Review, vol. xxiii. p. 88. 2 WORKS:-Sam. Puffendorf. Elementa Jurisprudentiæ Universalis : Hag. Com. 1660; Jen. 8vo. De Jure Naturæ et Gentium libb. viii.: Lund. 1672; Francof. 1684, 4to.; cum notis Hertii, Barbeyreci, et Mascovii, Francof. et Lips. 1744, 1749, 2 vols. 4to.; translated into English by Basil Kennett, folio, Lond. 1717, 1729 and 1749. De Officio Hominis et Civis libb. ii.: Lund. 1673; cum notis variorum, Lugd. Bat. 1769, 2 vols. 8vo. VOL. I. NO. I. B |