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OLL's 1,100th Book - Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1753) |
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The 1,100th item in the OLL Library: William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1753). |
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The 1,100th item to be added to the Library is Sir William Blackstone's four-volume Commentaries on the Laws of England (1753). This work assures him a place in history as one of the greatest scholars of English common law. William Blackstone (1723-1780) began his lectures on the common law in 1753 and his Commentaries served as a primary instructional tool in England and America well into the nineteenth century and exerted a pronounced influence on the development of the American legal tradition. Our online edition is a two volume edition which is interesting because it includes the commentaries of at least 5 previous editors of Blackstone’s work along with additional notes by Sharswood, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
[For further reading see the collection on Law]
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