The Struggle for Law

by Rudolf von Jhering

The Struggle for Law By Dr. Rudolph von Jhering Professor of Law at the University of Göttingen Translated from the Fifth German Edition By JOHN J. LALOR of the Chicago Bar Second Edition With an Introduction by Albert Kocourek Professor of Jurisprudence in Northwestern University CHICAGO CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY 1915

Copyright, 1879
By
Callaghan & Company

Copyright, 1915
By
Callaghan & Company

To

George W. Smith

of the Bar of Chicago

this volume is

respectfully inscribed

Contents

			Page
	Introduction	.      .     .	vii
	Translator's Note	.      .     .	xxxv
	Author's Preface	.      .     .	xliii
Chapter
I.	Origin of the Law	.      .     .	1
II.	The Life of the Law a Struggle	.      .     .	21
III.	The Struggle for his Rights a Duty of the Person whose Rights have been Violated, to Himself	.      .     .	31
IV.	The Assertion of One's Rights a Duty to Society	.      .     .	69
V.	Importance of the Struggle for Law to National Life	.      .     .	97
VI.	The Roman Law of To-day, and the Struggle for Law	.      .     .	109