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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Oxford ; Portland, OR. :
Hart Pub.,
2009.
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| Online Access: | Hart Publishing Law ebooks |
Table of Contents:
- Prelims; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Illustrations; I Life; 1 Blackstone and Biography; 2 A 'Model of the Old House'; 3 'A Mighty Consumption of Ale'; 4 William Blackstone and William Prynne; Part II Thought; 5 Blackstone on Judging; 6 Blackstone's Rules on the Construction of Statutes; 7 Blackstone and Bentham on the Law of Marriage; 8 Coverture and Unity of Person in Blackstone's Commentaries; 9 Blackstone on Colonialism; 10 Restoring the 'Real' to Real Property Law; III Influence; 11 American Blackstones; 12 Did Blackstone get the Gallic Shrug?; 13 Blackstone in Germany.