The development of a discipline depends on the accuracy of the fundamental conceptions applied in it. Accordingly, jurisprudential studies must proceed from the analysis of fundamental legal conceptions. Only with those accurate legal conceptions can the legal theories be constructed reasonably, and the basic principles expounded adequately. Using the analytical structure provided in Hohfeld's meta-form of rights, this essay makes a in-depth exploration into the meta-formof legal act, and attempts to establish some basic norms for the methodology of analytical jurisprudence. It also tries to surmount the division between public law and private law, resolve some central problems of legal act encountered in each branch of the law, and anatomize the basic logical structure of judicial reasoning. |