Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2
Author | : William Blackstone |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 022616294X |
Sir 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 second volume, Of the Rights of Things, A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights—real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts—and the work of his predecessors.
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Author | : Joseph Story |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |
A History of American Law
Author | : Lawrence M. Friedman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2019-09-09 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190070900 |
Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race relations, the book covers the changing configurations of commercial law, criminal law, family law, and the law of property. Friedman furthermore interrogates the vicissitudes of the legal profession and legal education. The underlying theory of this eminently readable book is that the law is the product of society. In this way, we can view the history of the legal system through a sociological prism as it has evolved over the years.
Commentaries on American Law, Volume IV (in Four Volumes)
Author | : James Kent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1904-12-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
"""It requires great experience, as well as the command of a perspicuous diction, to frame a law in such clear and precise terms as to secure it from ambiguous expressions, and from all doubt and criticisms upon its meaning." -James Kent, Commentaries on American Law Volume I (1826) Commentaries on American Law Volume IV (1860) by James Kent is the tenth edition and originally published in 1826, part of a four-volume set. All four volumes were adapted from the lectures Kent gave at Columbia Law School and are rich with historical references. The fourth volume contains fifteen lectures that continue the discussion of real property from volume three with a more specific focus on estates and wills. Also included is an index of court cases for easy referencing. Considered by some as the principal interpretation of American law, this book is for readers interested in learning more about the history and foundation of law.""