The mysterious science of the law
Subtitle: an essay on Blackstone's Commentaries, showing how Blackstone, employing eighteenth-century ideas of science, religion, history, aesthetics, and philosophy, made of the law at once a conservative and a mysterious science
By: by Daniel J. Boorstin.
Contributors: Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Peter Smith
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Gloucester, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780.; Law -- Great Britain.; Law -- Philosophy.
Notes: "First published in 1941 by the Harvard University Press. First Beacon Paperback edition published in 1958 by arrangement with the Harvard University Press. Reprinted, 1973, by permission of Harvard University Press"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.