Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 4: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769University of Chicago Press, 1979 M11 15 - 514 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Of FELONIES injurious to the KINGS PRERO | 94 |
Of PRAEMUN I R E | 102 |
Of MISPRISIONS and CONTEMPTS affecting | 119 |
Of OFFENCES against PUBLIC JUSTICE | 127 |
Of OFFENCES again the PUBLIC PEACE | 142 |
Of OFFENCES against PUBLIC TRADE | 154 |
Of OFFENCES against the PUBLIC HEALTH | 161 |
Of HOMICIDE | 176 |
Of SUMMARY CONVICTIONS | 277 |
Of ARREST S | 286 |
Of COMMITMENT and BAIL | 293 |
Of PROCESS upon an INDICTMENT | 313 |
Of PLEA and ISSUE | 326 |
Of TRIAL and CONVICTION | 336 |
Of the BENEFIT of CLERGY | 358 |
Of REVERSAL of JUDGMENT | 383 |
Of OFFENCES against the PERSONS of INDI | 205 |
Of OFFENCES against the HABITATIONS | 220 |
Of OFFENCES against PRIVATE PROPERTY | 229 |
Of the means of PREVENTING offences | 248 |
Of COURTS of a CRIMINAL JURISDICTION | 255 |
Of REPRIEVE and PARDON | 387 |
Of EXECUTION | 396 |
Conviction of Manslaughter iv | |
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