- Law, History of Law, Legal History, Legal Theory
Historical legal treatise analyzing and summarizing the common law of England as of the mid 1700s. Plays a somewhat similar role in North America as the basis of the common law of the United States at the time of its founding. The first systematic explication of English common law. Considered an appropriate secondary source today for certain common law questions such as the meaning of a term in a foundational U.S. document.
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- Author
- Sir William Blackstone
- First published
- 1756
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Printed at the Clarendon Press, Printed for Elizabeth Watts ..., Published by John Sharpe ...
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781575884134
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Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English judge, jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise on the common law entitled Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in four volumes over 1765–1769. It had an extraordinary success, reportedly bringing the author £14,000, and still remains an important source on classical views of the common law and its principles. ([Wikipedia][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blackstone
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