Blackstone's commentaries

Blackstone's commentaries
A series of lectures delivered by the English jurist SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE at Oxford in 1753 and published as Commentaries on the Laws of England in four volumes between 1765 and 1769, which systematized and clarified the amorphous body of English law.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


Blackstone's commentaries
A series of lectures delivered by the English jurist Sir William Blackstone at Oxford in 1753 and published as Commentaries on the Laws of England in four volumes between 1765 and 1769, which systematized and clarified the amorphous body of English law.

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  • Blackstone — (Bläckston), William, geb. 1723, gest. 1780, der beste Schriftsteller über das engl. Recht (Commentaries on english law), das er in ein übersichtliches System brachte und dessen inneren Zusammenhang er darlegte, für die Engländer um so wichtiger …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

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