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“The main purpose in giving to the public a new edition of the Commentaries of Blackstone, was to present the changes in the law which had taken place since the last preceding edition appeared, that the reader, while informing himself concerning the law of England of a century since, might not be misled in respect to its present condition. With this object before him, while avoiding the detail which might be useful to the English practitioner, but which would merely cumber the pages for American use, the editor has sought to indicate the statutory changes sufficiently to give a general idea of the advancement made in the English law since our commentator’s time, and also to enable the American student to compare the law of his own country with the system from which it was derived, as modified by the experience of another land enjoying free institutions under circumstances and with a state of society considerably differing from our own….” --Author’s Preface to the First Edition reprinted in 2nd Ed., Vol. 1.
“A new edition of this work having become necessary, the editor has made some changes and additions, but not such as will call for special notice here. They consist in the main of references to new cases, though some new notes have been added which may prove of practical value.” --Authors Preface in 2nd Ed., Vol. 1.
Publication Date
1872
Publisher
Callaghan and Company
City
Chicago
Keywords
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, English Legal History, English Legal System
Disciplines
Common Law | Comparative and Foreign Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books. Together with such notes of enduring value as have been published in the several English editions and also a copious analysis of the contents and additional notes with references to English and American decisions and statutes, to date : which illustrate or change the law of the text ; also, a full table of abbreviations, and some considerations regarding the study of the law / by Thomas M. Cooley. 2nd ed., rev. Chicago : Callaghan and Company, 1872.
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Volume II: Including Books III & IV