Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4
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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4

A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4

A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769

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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 fourth and final volume, Of Public Wrongs, Thomas A. Green examines Blackstone's attempt to rationalize the severity of the law with what he saw as the essentially humane inspiration of English law. Green discusses Blackstone's ideas on criminal law, criminal procedure, and sentencing.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780226163277
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Book Of Public Wrongs
  3. Chapter. I. Of The Nature of Crimes; and Their Punishment
  4. Chapter. II. Of The Persons Capable of committing Crimes
  5. Chapter. III. Of Principals and Accessories
  6. Chapter. IV. Of Offences against God and Religion
  7. Chapter. V. Of Offences against the Law of Nations
  8. Chapter. VI. Of High Treason
  9. Chapter. VII. Of Felonies, injurious to the King's Prerogative
  10. Chapter. VIII. Of Praemunire
  11. Chapter. IX. Of Misprisions and Contempts, Affecting the King and Government
  12. Chapter. X. Of Offences against Public Justice
  13. Chapter. XI. Of Offences against the Public Peace
  14. Chapter. XII. Of Offences against Public Trade
  15. Chapter. XIII. Of Offences against the Public Health, and the Public Police or Oeconomy
  16. Chapter. XIV. Of Homicide
  17. Chapter. XV. Of Offences against the Persons of Individuals
  18. Chapter. XVI. Of Offences against the Habitations of Individuals
  19. Chapter. XVII. Of Offences against Private Property
  20. Chapter. XVIII. Of the means of Preventing offences
  21. Chapter. XIX. Of Courts of a Criminal Jurisdiction
  22. Chapter. XX. Of Summary Convictions
  23. Chapter. XXI. Of Arrests
  24. Chapter. XXII. Of Commitment and Bail
  25. Chapter. XxIII. Of the several Modes of Prosecution
  26. Chapter. XXIV. Of Process upon an Indictment
  27. Chapter. XXV. Of Arraignment, and it's Incidents
  28. Chapter. XXVI. Of Plea, and Issue
  29. Chapter. XXVII. Of Trial, and Conviction
  30. Chapter. XXVIII. Of the Benefit of Clergy
  31. Chapter. XXIX. Of Judgment, and it's Consequences
  32. Chapter. XXX. Of Reversal of Judgement
  33. Chapter. XXXI. Of Reprieve, and Pardon
  34. Chapter. XXXII. Of Execution
  35. Chapter. XXXIII. Of the Rise, Progress, and Gradual Improvements, of the Laws of England
  36. Appendix
  37. Index
  38. Supplement to the First Edition; containing The most material Corrections and Additions in the Second