The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's

Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I, II, III, and Ivpack
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-960102-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Oxford's variorum edition of William Blackstone's seminal treatise on the common law of England and Wales offers the definitive account of the Commentaries' development in a modern format. For the first time it is possible to trace the evolution of English law and Blackstone's thought through the eight editions of Blackstone's lifetime, and the authorial corrections of the posthumous ninth edition. Introductions by the general editor and the volume editors set the Commentaries in their historical context, examining Blackstone's distinctive view of the common law, and editorial notes throughout the four volumes assist the modern reader in understanding this key text in the Anglo-American common law tradition.

In the final volume of the Commentaries Blackstone presents a comprehensive and critical overview of English criminal law and procedure, prefaced by a discussion of the philosophical and basis of the criminal justice system. His final chapter 'On the Rise, Progress, and Gradual Improvements, of the Laws of England' provides a fitting historical conclusion to the work as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackstone, William

Paley, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Editor's Introduction

- Editorial Conventions

- Book the Fourth: Of Public Wrongs

- I: Of the Nature of Crimes; and their Punishment

- II: Of the Persons Capable of Committing Crimes

- III: Of Principles and Accessories

- IV: Of Offences Against God and Religion

- V: Of Offences Against the Law of Nations

- VI: Of High Treason

- VII: Of Felonies, Injurous to the King's Prerogative

- VIII: Of Praemunire

- IX: Of Misprisions and Contempts, Affecting the King and Government

- X: Of Offences Against Public Justice

- XI: Of Offences Against the Public Peace

- XII: Of Offences Against Public Trade

- XIII: Of Offences Against the Public Health, and the Public Police or Oeconomy

- XIV: Of Homicide

- XV: Of Offences Against the Persons of Individuals

- XVI: Of Offences Against the Habitations of Individuals

- XVII: Of Offences Against Private Property

- XVIII: Of the Means of Preventing Offences

- XIX: Of Courts of a Criminal Jurisdiction

- XX: Of Summary Convictions

- XXI: Of Arrests

- XXII: Of Commitment and Bail

- XXIII: Of the Several Modes of Prosecution

- XXIV: Of Process upon an Indictment

- XXV: Of Arraignment, and it's Incidents

- XXVI: Of Plea, and Issue

- XXVII: Of Trial, and Convinction

- XXVIII: Of the Benefit of Clergy

- XXIX: Of Judgement, and it's Consequences

- XXX: Of Reversal of Judgement

- XXXI: Of Reprieve, and Pardon

- XXXII: Of Execution

- XXXIII: Of the Rise, Progress, and Gradual Improvement, of the Laws of England

- Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth Paley is an Editor at the History of Parliament Trust, focusing on the House of Lords from 1660-1832.