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Identifier
KD 660 .B52 1765
Creation Date
1765
Description
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book the First. Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765.
Sir William Blackstone’s (1723-1780) Commentaries on the Laws of England is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the English common law and one of the most celebrated texts in the English legal world. Blackstone divided his Commentaries into four books, deriving his structure from Justinian’s Institutes, keeping the topics of the first and second books (persons and things, respectively) the same and splitting the third Roman category (actions) into two separate books (private wrongs and public wrongs), given that crimes, procedures, and penalties had changed and expanded drastically since the sixth century. The first volume, displayed here, is from the first edition, printed in four volumes between 1765-1769 at the Clarendon Press at Oxford.
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