01909cam a22003253u 4500 30802 UtSlPG 20260610133713.0 m cr n 260607r2009||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 KD Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780 Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2009 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Laws_of_England Release date is 2009-12-30 Produced by The Bookworm, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Posner Memorial Collection (http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/)) "Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First" by Sir William Blackstone is a legal treatise published in 1765. This groundbreaking work made English common law accessible to ordinary readers for the first time since the Middle Ages. Book the First examines the rights of persons, exploring individuals' freedoms, Parliament's authority, the monarchy's powers, and the relationships between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children. Blackstone's readable approach transformed legal education in Britain and America, shaping the development of the American legal system. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Law -- England -- History Law -- England https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30802 71648 71648