JURISPRUDENCE: PHILOSOPHY ABOUT STUDY OF LAW

Abstract Jurisprudence has had controversial definitions since classical times. The history of evolution of jurisprudence is based upon two main sources of jurisprudential thought and experience emerge from antiquity, that are the philosophical speculation of the Greeks and the legal and administrative practice of the Romans. The word 'jurisprudence' is derived from the Latin phrase juris prudential which means "knowledge of the law". "Philosophy" is a study that seeks to understand the mysteries of existence and reality. Law in its most general and comprehensive sense signifies a rule of action and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of actions, whether animanate or inaniminate, rational or irrational. The phrase “philosophy of law” is inevitably tied up in the relationship between the two academic disciplines— philosophy and law. Since, law is the body of official rules and regulations, generally found in constitutions, legislation, judicial opinions, and the like, that is used to govern a society and to control the behavior of the members of a society ; philosophy examines the relationships between humanity and nature and between the individual and society and jurisprudence is the study of law. Hence, it can very well be said that "Jurisprudence is philosophy about study of law".