From the Library of
Professor David Mellinkoff
Who donated his collection
TO THE
UCLA School of Law
Hugh & Hazel Darling
Law Library
August 1 999
"Cleansed of words without reason, much of the language of the law need not be
PECULIAR AT ALL. AND BETTER FOR IT."
The Language of the Law
BY David Mellinkoff
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V
FIEST BOOK OF JURISPRUDENCE
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JURISPRUDENCE
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PREFACE
This book is not intended to lay out a general system of tlie philosophy of law, nor to give a classified view of the whole contents of any legal system, and it does not profess to compete with the many works which have aimed at one or both…