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The enforcement of morals / Patrick Devlin.
Record no.:
4608
Author:
Devlin, Patrick, Baron, 1905-1992.;
Publisher:
New York :: Oxford University Press,
Year:
1965.
Series:
Maccabean Lecture In Jurisprudence ;, 1959;
Description:
xiv, 139 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Ethics.;
Law and ethics.;
Natural law.;
Law (Philosophical concept);
Notes:
Nagle Library copy ex dono Adrian Diethelm, Rector. Seven essays delivered as lectures in Britain and U.S.A.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv)
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0192850180 9780192850188;
Abstract:
Morals and the criminal law -- Morals and the quasi-criminal law and the law of tort -- Morals and the law of contract -- Morals and the law of marriage -- Democracy and morality -- Mill on liberty in morals -- Morals and contemporary social reality.

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Devlin discusses many of the central problems of the enforcement of morals, disputing the contention that there is a realm of private morality which lies outside the law.
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