The Province of Legislation Determined
Subtitle: Legal Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ideas in Context)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780521528542
Subjects: English Law; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1700 to c 1800; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: England in the eighteenth century witnessed the composition of a single great classic of law which overshadowed all other contemporary legal writing, Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.