{"product_id":"commentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-volume-2-a-facsimile-of-the-first-edition-of-1765-1769-9780226055411","title":"Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William Blackstone\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Administrative Law \u0026amp; Regulatory Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Introducing 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","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47615397363863,"sku":"9780226055411","price":6577.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226055411.webp?v=1775100525","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/commentaries-on-the-laws-of-england-volume-2-a-facsimile-of-the-first-edition-of-1765-1769-9780226055411","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}