Sir William Blackstone
Description
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.
Books
The sovereignty of the law: selections from Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England
A translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian, and French quotations which occur in Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England
Reports of cases determined in the several courts of Westminster-Hall, from 1746 to 1779
An analysis of the laws of England
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.
Commentaries on the laws of England applicable to real property, adapted to the present state of the law in Ontario
Blackstone Economized: Being a Compendium of the Laws of England to the Present Time. In Four ...
Commentaries on the laws of England
Historical legal treatise on the common laws of England as of the mid eighteenth century.
A Translation of All the Greek, Latin, Italian and French Quotations which ...
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In the Order, and Compiled from the Text of Blackstone ...
Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.