historical school

American  

noun

1. a school of economists that arose in Germany in the 19th century in reaction to the principles of the classical economists, and that maintained that the factors making up an economy are variable and develop out of social institutions.

2. Law. the school of jurists who maintain that law is not to be regarded so much as resulting from commands of sovereigns as from historical and social circumstances.

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historical school British  

noun

1. a group of 19th-century German economists who maintained that modern economies evolved from historical institutions

2. the school of jurists maintaining that laws are based on social and historical circumstances rather than made by a sovereign power

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Etymology

Origin of historical school

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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historical school

Its best-known forms are the historical school in the science of law, and Marxism.

From Anarchism by Eltzbacher, Paul

If Froude had been appointed twenty years earlier, on the completion of his twelve volumes, he might have made Oxford the great historical school of England.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

Among other founders of the anthropological or historical school of mythology, De Brosses should not be forgotten.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew

Hegel was the first to gather the fruit whose seeds had been sown by Leibnitz, Lessing, Herder, and the historical school of law.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

He had recently come from Germany, where he had imbibed what was supposed to be a new gospel in economics, and he now appeared as the evangelist of what was termed the historical school.

From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon