Volume II: The Legal Systems of the World/Their Comparison and Unification | Chapter 3 (1984): Sources of Law
Completed in January 1981
René David
1. The object of this introduction is to detail what we intend to discuss here and to outline the plan we shall follow in our study.
A. Clarification of the Subject
2. Diverging definitions of law. – The problem of the sources of law has given rise to an abundant literature in a number of countries. The richness of the resulting bibliography does not…