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"Believing that the time has come when this work would be increased in value by discarding altogether the notes of English editors, and substituting matter more especially important to American practitioners and students, the editor has prepared this edition under that conviction.... To the Review of the recent progress of the law appended to the Fourth Book, there has been also added a summary account of the British Colonial System and the System of Local Government, and the means given for comparison of these with analogous institutions in the United States."
Publication Date
1884
Publisher
Callaghan and Company
City
Chicago
Keywords
William Blackstone, Blackstone's Commentaries, Laws of England, Laws of the United States, United StatesTerritories
Disciplines
Common Law | Comparative and Foreign Law | Legal History
Recommended Citation
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England : in Four Books.. 3rd ed., rev. Chicago : Callaghan and Company, 1884.
Comments
“Together with a copious analysis of the contents. And 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.”
Vol.1. Including Books I & II.