Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of ...

Sir William Blackstone (born July 10, 1723, London, England—died February 14, 1780, Wallingford, Oxfordshire) was an English jurist, whose Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vol. (1765–69), is the best-known description of the doctrines of English law.

Born to an middle-class English family in 1723, the political philosopher William Blackstone began his academic pursuits as a poet before his fascination...

13. sep. 2024 · He evidently regarded the law of England as the rules of action or conduct imposed by a superior power on its subjects. He propounded the ...

No single name shines more brightly in the history of our Anglo-. American legal system than that of Sir William Blackstone.1 He rose.

William Blackstone (1723-80) was the author of A Discourse on the Study of Law (1758), Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69), and other works.

1. jan. 2009 · William Blackstone (1723–1780) authored what is arguably the most influential treatise on the laws of England.

Blackstone began his lectures on the common law in 1753. His Commentaries served as a primary instruction tool in England and America well into the nineteenth ...

Sir William Blackstone was often a failure. And yet this flawed man contributed greatly to the Constitution, laws and leaders of the United States.