Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
The American Students' Blackstone
Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law
Author: Robert D. StaceyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781932124149
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An introduction for many to this legal scholar, law professor, attorney, member of Parliament, and judge who shaped the thinking of our founding fathers.
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: William BlackstoneBlackstone's Commentaries
Author: William BlackstonePublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781406964134
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
William Blackstone
Author: Wilfrid PrestPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199652015
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Lawyer, politician, poet, teacher and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in 18th century public life, and pivotal in the history of law. Despite the influence of his work, Blackstone the man remains little known. This book, Blackstone's first scholarly biography, sheds light on the life, work, and society of a neglected figure.
Blackstone in America
Author: Mary BilderPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107666627
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Blackstone in America explores the creative process of transplantation - the way in which American legislators and judges refashioned the English common law inheritance to fit the republican political culture of the new nation. With current scholarship returning to focus on the transformation of Anglo-American law to "American" law, Professor Kathryn Preyer's lifelong study of the constitutional and legal culture of the early American republic has acquired new relevance and a wider audience. The collection includes Professor Preyer's work on criminal law, the early national judiciary, and the history of the book. All nine of Professor Preyer's important and award-winning essays are easily accessible in this volume, with new introductions by three leading scholars of early American law.
An Analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: Barron FieldCommentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2
Author: William BlackstonePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616294X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece. Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar. Introducing this second volume, Of the Rights of Things, A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights—real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts—and the work of his predecessors.
Blackstone and His Commentaries
Author: Wilfrid R. PrestPublisher:
ISBN: 9781472560490
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
One of the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) has recently begun to attract renewed interest from legal and other scholars. The Commentaries no longer dominate legal education as they once did, especially in North America during the century after their first publication. But they continue to be regularly cited in the judgments of superior courts of review on both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere throughout the common-law world. They also provide constitutional, cultural, intellectual and legal histo.
Loving Justice
Author: Kathryn D. TemplePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147989527X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone’s England and their relationship to justice William Blackstone’s masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769), famously took the “ungodly jumble” of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume summary. Soon after publication, the work became an international monument not only to English law, but to universal English concepts of justice and what Blackstone called “the immutable laws of good and evil.” Most legal historians regard the Commentaries as a brilliant application of Enlightenment reasoning to English legal history. Loving Justice contends that Blackstone’s work extends beyond making sense of English law to invoke emotions such as desire, disgust, sadness, embarrassment, terror, tenderness, and happiness. By enlisting an affective aesthetics to represent English law as just, Blackstone created an evocative poetics of justice whose influence persists across the Western world. In doing so, he encouraged readers to feel as much as reason their way to justice. Ultimately, Temple argues that the Commentaries offers a complex map of our affective relationship to juridical culture, one that illuminates both individual and communal understandings of our search for justice, and is crucial for understanding both justice and injustice today.