Excerpt from The Austinian Theory of Law: Being An; Edition of Lectures I, V, and Vi of Austin's Jurisprudence, and of Austin's Essay on the Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence With Critical Notes and Excursus Having stated the origin of the following treatise, I now will suggest its principal purpose or scope And, having suggested its principal purpose or scope, I will indicate the topics with which it is chiefly concerned, and also the order wherein it presents them to the reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.