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.

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:

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 ".

In 1759 Blackstone published another two works, The Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest, with other authentic Instruments, described as a " major piece of pioneering scholarship " leading to Blackstone's election to the Society of Antiquaries in February 1761, and A Treatise on the Law of Descents in Fee Simple, which was later used, almost verbatim, as chapters 14 and 15 of the Commentaries.

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

Blackstone had drawn up a plan for a dedicated School of Law, and submitted it to the University of Oxford ; when the idea was rejected he included it in the Commentaries.

# A Summary of the Constitutional Law of England: being an Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries.

# The Commentaries of Sir W. Blackstone, Knight, on the Law and Constitution of England, carefully abridged in a new manner, and continued down to the present time ... By Wm.

# Commentaries on the Law of England, principally in the order, and comprising the whole substance, of Commentaries of Sir W. Blackstone.

# The Law Student's First Book, being chiefly an Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries ; incorporating the Alterations in the Law down to the present time.

# Blackstone's Commentaries systematically arranged and adapted to the existing State of the Law and Constitution, with great Additions.

* Essentials of the Law: A Review of Blackstone's Commentaries for the Use of Students at Law ( 1882 ) Author: Marshall Davis Ewell Published: Boston: Charles C Soule: 1882

* The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England edited by Gareth Jones, Published: London: Macmillan, 1973 ISBN 0-8357-4720-4, ISBN 978-0-8357-4720-2

* Boorstin, Daniel J., The Mysterious Science of the Law: An Essay on Blackstone's Commentaries, ( Univ.

* Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School ( full-text )

* Commentaries on the Law of Bailments ( 1832 )-- Link to an 1846 printing.

DeSaussure sent with him a list of law books including Blackstone's Commentaries and Burn ’ s Ecclesiastical Law, just in case young Poinsett changed his mind regarding the practice of law.

Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, were highly influential and were used as a reference and text book for English Common Law.

In 1870, Holmes became an editor of the American Law Review, edited a new edition of Kent's Commentaries on American Law in 1873, and published numerous articles on the common law.

He was involved in the publishing of Aleister Crowley's Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law ( edited by John Symonds and Kenneth Grant ; 93 Publishing, 1974 ) and was a student of Marcelo Ramos Motta, who described him as " an ex-Probationer who failed to keep his Oath and perform his Task and was cut contact with as a result.

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.

* The Commentaries on the Laws of England, a 1769 treatise on law

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.

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