Title
Abstract
In this essay I offer a speech act analysis of truth evaluable content of legal prescriptions. The argument is based on two main frameworks: one, drawn from an analogy with truth in fiction, explains the prefixed nature of legal statements, and the second explores the propositional content of legal prescriptions as a species of exhortative speech acts. Overall, the essay suggests an interpretation of legal prescriptions that allows for the validity of standard legal syllogisms.
Disciplines
Jurisprudence
Date of this Version
November 2011
Recommended Citation
Andrei Marmor, "Truth in Law" (November 2011). University of Southern California Legal Studies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 73.
http://law.bepress.com/usclwps-lss/art73