By Francois Geny1

I. Its Basis

Sec. 1. NEED FOR AND NATURE OF FREE LEGAL DECISION. - Sec. 2. GENERAL SCOPE OF FREE DECISION. - Sec. 3. OBJECTIVE FACTORS IN SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; PUBLIC OPINION. - Sec. 4. SYSTEMATIC LOGIC AND THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF OUR SCIENCE; CONCEPTS AND ABSTRACT NOTIONS . Sec. 5. THE "NATURE OF THINGS"; THE IDEA OF LAW AS A MEANS TO AN END.

II. Its Practical Application

Sec. 6. THE METHOD OF FREE DECISION. - Sec. 7. LIBERAL USE OF THIS METHOD. - Sec. 8. THE AUTONOMY OF INDIVIDUAL WILL EXPLAINED. - Sec. 9. EXTENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF THE AUTONOMY OF THE WILL. - Sec. 10. SAME '

1 [Professor of Civil Law at the University of Nancy. The selections translated are taken from sections 155-159, 169-176 of his "Methode d'interpretation et sources en droit prive positif," Paris, 1899. He is also author of "Science et technique en droit prive positif: nouvelle contribution a la critique de la methode juridique," vol. i, Paris 1914; vol. ii, Paris 1915. The translation is by Ernest Bruncken, of Washington, D. C.]

SUBJECT CONTINUED. - Sec. 11. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE EQUILIBRIUM OF INTERESTS. - Sec. 12. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. - Sec. 13. THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPERIOR INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY. - Sec. 14. OTHER APPLICATIONS OF THE METHOD OF FREE DECISION.