Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2 - A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

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.
Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar.
Introducing this second volume, "Of the Rights of Things," A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights--real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts--and the work of his predecessors.

Product details

• Authors: Sir William Blackstone, William Blackstone
• Assisted by: A. W. Brian Simpson (Illustration), Stanley N. Katz (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1979
• EAN: 9780226055411
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05541-1
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, Wales, LAW / General, Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law, Laws Of Specific Jurisdictions, Wales / Cymru