Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: William BlackstoneCommentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2
Author: William BlackstonePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226055418
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 569
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.
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Rights of things
Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Sovereignty of the Law
Author: Sir William BlackstonePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349018236
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Commentaries on American Law
Author: James KentThe History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I.
Author: Frederick PollockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Blackstone'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!
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 BlackstonePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781534778702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Commentaries on the Laws of England BOOK THE FIRST. BY William Blackstone The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The work is divided into four volumes, on the rights of persons, the rights of things, of private wrongs and of public wrongs. The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system. They were in fact the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England has relied on precedent more than statute and codifications and has been far less amenable than the civil law, developed from the Roman law, to the needs of a treatise. The Commentaries were influential largely because they were in fact readable, and because they met a need. The work is as much an apologia for the legal system of the time as it is an explanation; even when the law was obscure, Blackstone sought to make it seem rational, just, and inevitable that things should be how they were. The Commentaries are often quoted as the definitive pre-Revolutionary source of common law by United States courts. Opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States quote from Blackstone's work whenever they wish to engage in historical discussion that goes back that far, or farther (for example, when discussing the intent of the Framers of the Constitution). The book was famously used as the key in Benedict Arnold's book cipher, which he used to communicate secretly with his conspirator John Andre during their plot to betray the Continental Army during the American Revolution."