This work was published shortly after its author resigned the Vinerian Chair, a position which he was the first to hold.
This work was published shortly after its author resigned the Vinerian Chair, a position which he was the first to hold. It was used as the key in the book cipher that John Andre and Benedict Arnold used to communicate, and it served as the basis for the most famous work of James Kent. James Wilson's strenuous opposition to this work's principles led to his attack on this work's definition of the sovereign state in his opinion for Chisholm v. Georgia. This text, which was attacked in (*) Jeremy Bentham's "Fragment on Government", asserts that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". For 10 points, identify this four-volume work divided into sections on the rights of persons and things and on public and private wrongs, a study of common law by William Blackstone.
This work was published shortly after its author resigned the Vinerian Chair, a position which he was the first to hold.
Commentaries on the Laws of England [accept "Blackstone's Commentaries" before "Blackstone" is read; prompt on "Commentaries"]