Blackstone and his commentaries : biography, law, history / edited by Wilfrid Prest.
One of the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) has recently begun to attract renewed interest from legal and other scholars. The Commentaries no longer dominate legal education as they once did, especiall...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; Portland, OR. :
Hart Pub.,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Hart Publishing Law ebooks |
| Summary: | One of the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9) has recently begun to attract renewed interest from legal and other scholars. The Commentaries no longer dominate legal education as they once did, especially in North America during the century after their first publication. But they continue to be regularly cited in the judgments of superior courts of review on both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere throughout the common-law world. They also provide constitutional, cultural, intellectual and legal histo. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly colour) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847315194 9781847315199 1282444433 9781282444430 1472560493 9781472560490 |