Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: William BlackstoneSir 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, 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
Book Description
William Blackstone
Author: Wilfrid PrestPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019160951X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Lawyer, judge, politician, poet, teacher, and architect, William Blackstone was a major figure in eighteenth century public life. Over his varied and brilliant career he made profound contributions to English politics, law, education, and culture through involvements in legal practice, Parliament, and the University of Oxford. Throughout he also remained engaged in his society's literary and spiritual life. Despite the breadth and influence of his work, Blackstone the man remains little known and poorly understood, the lack of engagement with his public and private life standing in stark contrast to the scale of his influence, particularly on the development and teaching of the law. Blackstone's 'Commentaries on the Laws of England' remains the most celebrated and influential text in the Anglo-American common-law tradition. This great book has inevitably overshadowed its author, while the dispersal of his personal and professional papers further complicates the task of understanding the man behind the work. The lack of a thorough account of Blackstone's life has fuelled controversy surrounding his intellectual background and political views. Was he the deeply reactionary conservative painted by Bentham, or rather a committed reformer and early champion of human rights? The present biography makes full use of a considerable body of new evidence that has emerged in recent years to shed light on the life, work, and times of this neglected figure in English and American history. Exploring Blackstone's family upbringing and private life, his political activities and ideology, his religious outlook, and championing of the enlightenment, this book weaves together the threads of an extraordinary mind and career.
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.
Of private wrongs
Author: William BlackstoneJesus is Coming
Author: William E. BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : End of the world
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: Sir William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Rights of persons
Author: William BlackstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description