Blackstone's Commentaries

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1469-2139|4|3|286-307

ISSN: 0008-1973

Source: Cambridge Law Journal, Vol.4, Iss.3, 1932-11, pp. : 286-307

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Abstract

BLACKSTONE'S Commentaries on the Laws of England was on its appearance received with unbounded admiration. It was felt to be a work of untold originality. The author became at once the Great Commentator. In the eyes of his earliest readers he was not only an erudite lawyer and a charming writer, but also a profound jurist. The Annual Register for 1767—then edited by Burke—contained a lengthy eulogy of the book. The review may well have been written by Burke himself.