Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 443
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Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: William BlackstoneCommentaries 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.
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: Sir William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Rights of persons
Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Private wrongs
Author: William BlackstoneAn Analysis of the Laws of England
Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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An Analysis of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: Barron FieldThe Constitution of England
Author: Jean Louis de LolmePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Loving Justice
Author: Kathryn D. TemplePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147989527X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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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.
The Sovereignty of the Law
Author: Sir William BlackstonePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349018236
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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