Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, Libro 1Clarendon Press, 1770 "Blackstones great achievements was to popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its information. If the English constitution survived the troubles of the next century, it was because the law had gained a new popular respect, and this was due in part to the enormous success of Blackstones work" -- Printing and the Mind of Man. "The Commentaries are not only a statement of the law of Blackstone's day, but the best history of English law as a whole which had yet appeared. The skilful manner in which Blackstone uses his auhtorities new and old, and the analogy of other systems of law, to illustrate the evolution of the law of his day, had a vast influence both in England and America, in implanting in the profession a sound tradition of the historical development of the law." -- Holdsworth, Historians, 22. |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
abfolute act of parliament againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer antient becauſe biſhop buſineſs cafe canon law caſe cauſe civil law clergy commiffion common law confent confequence confider confideration confifts conftitution corporations courſe courts crown cuſtoms declared defcend diſtinct duty ecclefiaftical eftate election Eliz Engliſh eſtabliſhed eſtate exerciſe faid fame fecond feems fervant fhall fince fir Edward Coke firſt fociety fome fometimes fucceffion fucceffor fuch fufficient hath heirs Henry Henry VIII himſelf houſe huſband iffue Inft inſtance itſelf juriſdiction juſtice king king's kingdom land laſt laws of England leaſt liberty Litt lord marriage maſter moſt muſt nature neceffary obferved occafion otherwiſe pariſh perfons prerogative preſent preſerve prince puniſhment purpoſe queen raiſed reaſon reign reſpect royal ſeems ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſheriff ſhould ſome Stat ſtate ſtatute ſtill ſtudy ſubject ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe univerſity unleſs uſe uſually veſted writ