TAILIEUCHUNG - Commentaries On The Laws Of England

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 | I COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND BY Sib william BLACKSTONE KNT. One of the Justices in His Majesty s Court of Common Pleas. IN ONE VOLUME TOGETHER WITH A COPIOUS GLOSSARY OF LEGAL TERMS EMPLOYED ALSO. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WRITERS REFERRED TO AND A CHART OF DESCENT OF ENGLISH SOVEREIGNS. EDITED BY WM. HARDCASTLE BROWNE A. M OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR. author of a Commentary on the Law of Divorce and Alimony Etc. ST. PAUL WEST PUBLISHING CO. Ỉ897. UK Sntorođ according to act of Congress toy WM. HARDCASTLE BROWNB ỈD he Office of ths Librarian of Congress at Washington I 1916. to PREFACE. ì. Nearly a century and a half ago the students of Oxford University listened to the lectures of Sir William Blackstone on the subject of English law which literary and historical compilations were subsequently embodied in the four volumes of his commentaries. From that time to the present day wherever the English language is spoken these commentaries have been adopted by jurists lawyers students and literary men generally as an epitome of the fundamental principles of our jurisprudence. Numerous editions of the work have appeared more or less abridged and usually copiously annotated. Whether in an elementary work of this nature on the general principles of English law a profusion of notes is an advantage may well be doubted. In addition to the fact that many of such notes are necessarily of local application or a mere reprint of the notes and opinions of previous editors it is a question whether their great number and variety would not tend to confuse the student and to some extent divert his attention from the original text. So convinced of this fact are the faculties of a few of our leading law schools that the catalogues of such institutions ỉn certain instances in specifying the works to be studied mention Blackstone s Commentaries exclusive of editors notes. Dr. Samuel Johnson ỉn his preface to an edition of Shakespeare s plays advises the reading of the dramas .with utter

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