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Who wrote, “The intention is the aim of the act, of which the motive is the spring”?

The sentence is John Austin's, from his Lectures on Jurisprudence, where he separates the motive that prompts an act from the intention that directs it. Salmond, Keeton and…

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Who wrote, “The intention is the aim of the act, of which the motive is the spring”?

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The sentence is John Austin's, from his Lectures on Jurisprudence, where he separates the motive that prompts an act from the intention that directs it. Salmond, Keeton and Bentham also wrote on motive and intention, but this formulation is Austin's.

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