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Per Bentham, expository jurisprudence ascertains what the law is. The complementary branch he identified, which ascertains what the law ought to be, is:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D.
1. The unit cites Bentham's distinction between two senses of jurisprudence.
2. Expository (descriptive) jurisprudence describes what the law is.
3. Censorial (critical) jurisprudence asks what the law ought to be.
4. Bentham further divided expository into authoritative and unauthoritative modes.
5. So 'censorial' is the unit's term for the normative branch.
_Source: ICSI CS Executive Programme, Paper 1 "Jurisprudence, Interpretation and General Laws", Lesson 1 "Sources of Law" (Nov 2021 edition, pp 2-19)._
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