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His edition of Blackstone's Commentaries is the first American edition, printed in Philadelphia in 1771. It is creditable to the press of that time, and is overlaid with annotations, showing how diligently the future American commentator studied the elegant work of his English predecessor.
"How did he happen to be talking about Blackstone's Commentaries?" "He told me that Linkern found Blackstone's Commentaries in a barl." There was a titter in the court room. "Did you believe him?" "Yes, sir." "What were you doin' out there?" "Diggin' for treasure." "Oh, like Tom Sawyer?" "Yes, sir." "And so now you're testifyin' like Tom Sawyer?" "Yes, sir." "Don't you dream a good deal, my boy?"
See Sir J. F. Stephen's History of the Criminal Law , i. 470. He quotes Blackstone's famous statement that there were 160 felonies without benefit of clergy, and shows that this gives a very uncertain measure of the severity of the law.
For if he had, he'd a lost the treasure the cost of doin' that would have wasted all the treasure. And this the clerk knew. That's why he didn't know what it was worth, though he knew it was worth a lot and he was a happy man." "Well," said Mitch, "what was it tell me I can't wait." Blackstone's Commentaries." "Oh, shucks," said Mitch. "Shucks," said the old man. "Listen to me.
The fundamental principle of all equal and just law is contained in the following extract from Blackstone's Commentaries, Introduction, sec. 2.
See Blackstone's Magna Charta, printed at Oxford, 1759. 1 W. and M. Ecclesiasticus, chap, xxxviii. ver. 24, 25. "The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad; that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labors, and whose talk is of bullocks?" Ver. 27.
In 1776 he pub. anonymously his Fragment on Government, an able criticism of Blackstone's Commentaries, which brought him under the notice of Lord Shelburne, and in 1780 his Introduction to Principles of Morals and Legislation.
The study of law at that time was much more difficult than at the present day. The student was obliged to begin de novo with the old statutes and decisions, and to make up the science for himself by a difficult induction, which not many young men were able to do successfully. Law text-books were virtually unknown. Otis did not even have access to "Blackstone's Commentaries."
She might be murdered, and I never know it! O my darling! my darling! At the thought a groan escaped me. A hand was laid on my arm. That I knew was my husband's. But a voice was in my ear, and that was Mr. Blackstone's. "Do you think God loves the child less than you do? Or do you think he is less able to take care of her than you are?
She made another entry under the head of "Good": "I am old enough to consent, and so is Allan too. Go on," resumed Neelie, looking over the reader's shoulder. "Never mind all that prosing of Blackstone's, about the husband being of years of discretion, and the wife under twelve. Abominable wretch! the wife under twelve! Skip to the third incapacity, if there is one."
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