Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 3: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769Sir 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 third volume, Of Private Wrongs, John H. Langbein discusses Blackstone's account of procedure and jurisdiction, jury trial, and equity. He also examines Blackstone's uneasy attitude toward the celebrated legal frictions of English civil procedure. |
Contents
Os Private Wrongs | 1 |
Of Courts in general 2 2 | 22 |
Of the Public Courts of Common | 30 |
Of Courts Ecclesiastical Military | 61 |
Of Courts of a Special Jurisdiction | 71 |
Of the Cognizance of Private Wrongs | 86 |
Of Wro n g s and their Remedies respeSiing | 115 |
Of Injuries to Personal Property | 144 |
Of the Pursuit of Remedies by Action | 270 |
Of Pleading | 293 |
Of Issue and Demurrer | 314 |
Of the several Species Trial | 325 |
Of the Trial by Jury | 349 |
Of Judgment and its Incidents | 386 |
Of Proceedings in the nature of Appeals | 402 |
Of Proceedings in the Courts of Equity | 426 |
Of Injuries to Real Property and firfi | 167 |
Of Dispossession or Ouster of Chattels | 198 |
Of Trespass | 208 |
Chap XIII | 216 |
Of Subtraction | 230 |
Of Disturbance | 236 |
Of Injuries proceeding fronts or ajfeEling | 254 |
Proceedings on a Writ Right Patent Page i | i |
Proceedings on an ABion of Trespass in Ejectment | vii |
Proceedings on an Aflicm of Debt in the Court | xiii |
Writ of Quo minus in the Exchequer xix | xix |
Process of Execution | xxvi |
Other editions - View all
Commentaries On The Laws Of England; Volume 3 Sir William Blackstone,Edward Christian No preview available - 2022 |
Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 3 Herbert Broom,Sir William Blackstone,Edward Alfred Hadley No preview available - 2015 |
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