Abstract
Earlier D. A. Jordan, C. R. Jordan and D. S. Passman have investigated the properties of Lie rings Der [Formula: see text] of derivations in a commutative differentially prime rings [Formula: see text]. We study Lie rings Der [Formula: see text] in the non-commutative case and prove that if [Formula: see text] is a [Formula: see text]-torsion-free [Formula: see text]-semiprime ring, then [Formula: see text] is a semiprime Lie ring or [Formula: see text] is a commutative ring.