Commentaries on the Laws of England (4 Volume Set)

BLACKSTONE, William

Legal Classics Library, 1983

4 volume set. Bound in fine modern brown leather. Hardcover. Gilt spine and cover. 4 raised bands. AEG. tight binding and solid boards.  Clean, unmarked pages. "The following sheets contain the substance of the course of lectures on the laws of England, which were read by the author in the University of Oxford. His original plan took it's rise in the year 1753"--Preface.  Originally published, Oxford 1765-1769. Blackstone "treats first of the rights commanded or recognized by the law, and secondly of the wrongs which it prohibits; rights again he divides...into rights of persons and rights of things (or property), and wrongs into private wrongs, or civil injuries, and public wrongs, or 'crimes and misdemeanors.' To each of these four divisions is allotted a volume. ... As an institutional treatise...it stands alone." DNB II, p. 597-8. Contents:V. 1. Introduction. Of the rights of persons; v. 2. Of the rights of things; v. 3. Of private wrongs; v. 4. Of public wrongs