Legal opinion of Sir William Blackstone on the rights of free-holders to commons after enclosure, 1767, February 27.

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Legal opinion of Sir William Blackstone on the rights of free-holders to commons after enclosure, 1767, February 27.

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The legal opinion set down here should be seen against the inclosure movement of the 18th century, and concerns the rights of free-holders to village lands used in common and to long-time encroachments onto commons. The manuscript is incomplete.

2 pages, 34 cm.

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Blackstone, William, 1723-1780

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The noted jurist, judge, and legal writer William Blackstone established the study of England's common law as an accepted academic discipline, and his Oxford lectures were published in 1765-1769 as the famous and influential Commentaries on the Laws of England. In the years since then, in numerous editions and translations, this work provided the definitive account of the state of English law in the mid-18th century. From the description of Legal opinion of Sir William Blackstone on ...