Mysterious science of the law : an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science / by Daniel J. Boorstin ; with a new foreword.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.Description: xx, 253 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.; PbkISBN: - 9780226064987 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1941.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction
I: The Law: Science and Mystery
II: The Use of History
III: The Tendency of History
IV: The Use of Aesthetics
V: The Limits of Reason
VI: The Methods of Reason
VII: Humanity
VIII: Liberty
IX: Property
Conclusion: The Advantage of Being a Reasonable Creature
Notes
A Layman's Glossary
Index
Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's "Commentaries" on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and America when its first volume appeared in 1765. This work examines why "Commentaries" became the knowledge that any lawyer needed to acquire.
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