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Short title: Commentaries On The Laws Of England: Author: William Blackstone: Conversion program: Google Books PDF Converter (rel 3 12/12/14) Encrypted: no
Place of publication: Oxford: References: ESTC citation number T57753, system number 006329087.: Authority file OCLC: 65350522: Source: Internet Archive from the John Adams Library in the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts (transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1894).
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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.
Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law. [1]
An Analysis of the Laws of England is a legal treatise by British legal professor William Blackstone.It was first published by the Clarendon Press in 1756. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a lecturer there, on 3 July 1753 Blackstone announced his intentions to give a set of lectures on the common law — the first lectures of that sort in the world. [1]
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Described as a "sensible, spirited and manly exhortation to the study of the law", the initial print run of the Discourse sold out, necessitating the publication of another 1,000 copies. Later versions of his An Analysis of the Laws of England and the first volume of his Commentaries on the Laws of England were prefaced with copies. [6]