The apriori foundations of the civil law

Along with the lecture "concerning phenomenology"

Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach

Translated by John F. Crosby

Shows that in the civil law, where one usually thinks that there are only legal structures of human devising, there are in fact many essential structures, such as the structure of promising or of owning. This book also shows that the essence of legally relevant acts such as promising, comes to evidence when they are understood as social acts.