Hilaire McCoubrey
Ashgate Dartmouth
Hardback
236
1997
This book argues that much of the inconsistency in the theoretical treatment of legal obligation derives from a misperception of conventional linguistic usage. Conventional legal discourse treats 'obligation' as an implicitly quasi-moral and unitary phenomenon. The author suggests that legal obligation must be admitted to involve multiple linguistic usages including at least three different types of 'obligation' which may be associated with provision of positive law.