Commentaries on the Laws of England, Nide 4

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Taylor & Francis, 2002 - 514 sivua
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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Of FELONIES injurious to the KINGS PRERO
94
Of PRAEMUNIRE
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 CONVICTION S
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
APPENDIX
437
Writ of Execution upon a judgment of Murder before the King
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