Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769 (4 Volumes), KOMPLETT.

Language: English

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979

0226055477 / 9780226055473

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xiii, 473, xv, 520, xix (Appendix), xii, 455, xxvii (Appendix), xvi, 436, vii (appendix), viii (Supplement). Best condition, Sehr guter Zustand. -- Perhaps the most important legal treatise ever written in the English language, Sir William Blackstone's "Commentaries on the Laws of England" (1765-69) was the first effort to consolidate English common law into a unified and rational system. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education both in England and America. This handsomely produced, slipcased four-volume set includes facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition, undistorted by later interpolations. The "Commentaries" is divided into four books. The first, introduced by Stanley N. Katz, deals with what Blackstone called "the rights of persons," what a modern lawyer would call constitutional law, the legal structure of government. Book II includes an introduction by A. W. Brian Simpson and describes the law of property. Book III, introduced by John H. Langbein, analyzes civil procedure and remedies. The last book, which is devoted to criminal law and procedure, includes an introduction by Thomas A. Green. Now regarded as a literary, as well as a legal classic, Blackstone's "Commentaries" brilliantly laid out the system of English law in the mid-eighteenth century, demonstrating that as a system of justice, it was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Ironically, the work also revealed to the colonists the insufficiencies of the system and became a model for the legal system of the fledgling American nation in 1789. Supplemented with commentary by experts in the field, these classic facsimile volumes belong on every lawyer's bookshelves. Volume I: "Of the Rights of Persons (1765)"Volume II: "Of the Rights of Things (1766)"VolumeIII: "Of Private Wrongs (1768)"Volume IV: "Of Public Wrongs (1769)" Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 3700 First University of Chicago Press Edition. ERSTAUSGABE.

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Title
Commentaries on the Laws of England, A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769 (4 Volumes), KOMPLETT.
Author
Blackstone, William; Katz, Stanley N. (Introduction); Simpson, A.W. Brian (Introduction); Langbein, John H. (Introduction); Green, Thomas A. (Introduction):
Publisher
University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Publication year
1979
Binding
8° , Leinen
Language
English
ISBN 10
0226055477
ISBN 13
9780226055473
Edition
1st Edition
Item weight
3,700 grams
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