A four-volume systematic exposition of English common law, published 1765 to 1769, based on Blackstone's Oxford lectures. The first attempt to render the whole of English law as a coherent, teachable system rather than a mass of case reports; widely read by the American Founders and cited as an authority in early United States courts.
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