A Comment on the Commentaries and a Fragment on Government

by Philip Schofield

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In the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9). In "Comment on the Commentaries," on which Bentham began work in 1774, he exposes the fallacies which he claims to have detected in Blackstone, and criticizes the theory of the Common Law. He goes on to provide important reflections on the nature of law, and more particularly on the nature of customary and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199553475

ISBN13:9780199553471

Release Date:January 2009

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:630 Pages

Weight:2.32 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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History Law Philosophy

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