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The title page of the first book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1st ed., 1765). The Commentaries on the Laws of England [1] (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford between 1765 and 1769.
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A fifth edition was published in 1762, [9] and a sixth, edited to take into account Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, in 1771. [10] Many of the later editions were prefaced with copies of Blackstone's A Discourse on the Study of the Law, first published in 1758. [11]
Works by the English jurist and politician William Blackstone (1723–1780). Pages in category "Works by William Blackstone" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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A fifth edition was published in 1762, [50] and a sixth, edited to take into account Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, in 1771. [51] Because of the success of the Commentaries , Prest remarks that "relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to this work"; [ 49 ] at the time, however, it was hailed as "an elegant ...
New Commentaries on the Laws of England (based on William Blackstone's commentaries), 1841–5, 4 vols.; later editions, edited by his son, James Stephen, and his grandson, H. St. James Stephen; the tenth appeared in 1895. The book was reprinted in America in 1843–1846.
When he was Professor of Law and Police at the College of William & Mary, Tucker used William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England as his primary text. [111] While Tucker considered Blackstone the best treatise to use for learning the common law, he thought it had some important weaknesses as a teaching tool for American law. [111]