He then decided to become a lawyer and began teaching himself law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and other law books.

He plied Origen with questions, and urged him to write his Commentaries () on the books of the Bible, and, as a wealthy nobleman and courtier, he provided his teacher with books for his studies and secretaries to lighten the labor of composition.

The works dealing with the Old Testament included Commentary on Samuel, Commentary on Genesis, Commentaries on Ezra and Nehemiah, On the Temple, On the Tabernacle, Commentaries on Tobit, Commentaries on Proverbs, Commentaries on the Song of Songs, Commentaries on the Canticle of Habakkuk, The works on Ezra, the Tabernacle and the Temple were especially influenced by Gregory the Great's writings.

Signs of this can be found in Blackstone ’ s Commentaries on the Laws of England, and Roman law ideas regained importance with the revival of academic law schools in the 19th century.

In Commentaries on the Laws of England ( Bk I, ch. 4, pp 106 – 108 ), Sir William Blackstone described the process by which English common law followed English colonization:

Sir William Blackstone as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.

The next definitive historical treatise on the common law is Commentaries on the Laws of England, written by Sir William Blackstone and first published in 1765-1769.

Commentaries on the Laws of England.

In his famous Commentaries on the Laws of England he wrote that " every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether produced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly is a degree of tyranny.

Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols.

" William Blackstone touched on the subject in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, establishing perjury as " a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely, and falsely, in a matter material to the issue or point in question.

It can be recognized in legal treatises like William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and enactments like the French Code civil or the German BGB.

Sir William Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, described summary offences thus:

In 1765, William Blackstone wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England describing the right to have arms in England during the 18th century as a natural right of the subject that was " also declared " in the English Bill of Rights.

According to the great treatise of the 1760s by William Blackstone entitled Commentaries on the Laws of England:

Commentaries on the Laws of England.

This was an unsparing criticism of some introductory passages relating to political theory in William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.

Commentaries on the Laws of England.

According to William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, a court is constituted by a minimum of three parties: the actor or plaintiff, who complains of an injury done ; the reus or defendant, who is called upon to make satisfaction for it, and the judex or judicial power, which is to examine the truth of the fact, to determine the law arising upon that fact, and, if any injury appears to have been done, to ascertain and by its officers to apply a legal remedy.

( 1765 ) Commentaries on the Laws of England.

His Historia Placitorum Coronæ, dealing with capital offences against the Crown, is considered " of the highest authority ", while his Analysis of the Common Law is noted as the first published history of English law and a strong influence on William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.

William Blackstone, when writing his Commentaries on the Laws of England, noted in his preface that " of all the earlier schemes for digesting the Laws of England the most natural and scientific, as well as the most comprehensive, appeared to be that of Sir Matthew Hale in his posthumous Analysis of the Law ".

Excerpts from: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Collins & Hannay, New York 1832

This practice usually consisted of reading classic legal texts, such as Edward Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England and William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.

He is most noted for writing the Commentaries on the Laws of England.

Commentaries on the Law of England: A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1765-1769, Vol.

** The Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, a 1769 major legal text of the 18th century ; often referred to as " Blackstone " or " Blackstone's Commentaries "

The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765 – 1769.

William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England ( 1765 – 1769 ) and Henry Hallam's Constitutional History of England ( 1827 ) reveal many Whiggish traits.

" In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.

In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.

* Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: Volume I, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: Volume II and Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: Volume III, ( 3 vols., 1833 ), a work of profound learning which is still the standard treatise on the subject.

Upshur's view of the Constitution received its fullest expression in his 1840 treatise in response to Judge Joseph Story, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.

Besides the Institutes, which are a complete exposition of the elements of Roman law, Gaius was the author of a treatise on the Edicts of the Magistrates, of Commentaries on the Twelve Tables, and on the important Lex Papia Poppaea, and several other works.

In 1814 Venturi wrote Commentarj sopra la storia e le teorie dell ' ottica ( Commentaries about the history and theory of optics ), which included Hero of Alexandria's treatise on the dioptra and from 1818 to 1821 he compiled, edited and published many of Galileo's manuscripts and letters in Memorie e lettere inedite finora o disperse di Galileo Galilei, ordinate e illustrate con annotazioni.

It was more recently promulgated, in broad form ( air above and ground below ) by William Blackstone in his influential treatise Commentaries on the Laws of England ( 1766 ); see origins, below, for details.

Sir William Blackstone explains in his landmark treatise on the common law, Commentaries on the Laws of England:

The Scottish Law Commission, in its Discussion Paper No 122 on Insanity and Diminished Responsibility ( 2003 ), pp. 16 / 18 confirms that the law has not substantially changed from the position stated in Hume's Commentaries:

William Searle Holdsworth, one of Blackstone's successors as Vinerian Professor, argued that " If the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that United States, and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the common law.

These show Blackstone's attempts to reduce English law to a logical system, with the division of subjects later being the basis for his Commentaries.

The lecture was tremendously popular, being described as a " sensible, spirited and manly exhortation to the study of the law "; the initial print run sold out, necessitating the publication of another 1, 000 copies, and it was used to preface later versions of the Analysis and the first volume of the Commentaries.

Bentham asserted that in the King's Bench, Blackstone was " always in hot water ", and that there was " heartburning " between the two ; Bentham's account is considered dubious because historically, Mansfield and Blackstone had an excellent relationship, with the third volume of the Commentaries describing Mansfield as " a judge, whose masterly acquaintance with the law of nations was known and revered by every state in Europe ".

Academics have said that the Commentaries were crucial in changing English Law from a system based on actions to a system of substantive law.

William Searle Holdsworth, one of Blackstone's successors as Vinerian Professor, argued that " if the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that United States, and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the law ".

Within United States academia and practise, as well as within the judiciary, the Commentaries had a substantial impact ; with the scarcity of law books on the frontier, they were " both the only law school and the only law library most American lawyers used to practise law in America for nearly a century after they were published ".

The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal system.

The Commentaries are often quoted as the definitive pre-Revolutionary source of common law by United States courts.

At first, his Commentaries were hotly contested, some seeing in it an evil or covert attempt to reduce or codify the common law which was anathema to common law purists.