{"product_id":"commentaries-on-the-laws-of-william-blackstone-9780226055411","title":"Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreviously 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroducing this second volume, \u003ci\u003eOf the Rights of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights--real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts--and the work of his predecessors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Blackstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226055418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226055411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 5.88w x 1.17d","brand":"William Blackstone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913417818367,"sku":"9780226055411","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ab5f60ce-cf71-4496-8920-c40fae1a77a0.jpg?v=1680620295","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/commentaries-on-the-laws-of-william-blackstone-9780226055411","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}