In 1435 he was sent by Cardinal Albergati, Eugenius IV's legate at the council, on a secret mission to Scotland, the object of which is variously related even by himself < ref > In his Commentaries, he briefly mentions that that he was sent to Scotland " to help a prelate come back into the King's favour " and later mentions that once in the presence of the King ( James I ) he was granted everything he had come to Scotland for.

Beatus followed the views of Saint Augustine whose work, The City of God, influenced the Commentaries which followed the premise that the History of the World was structured in six ages: the first five ones extended between the creation of Adam, and the Passion of Jesus, while the sixth, subsequent to Christ and contemporary to us, had to end with the unleashing of the happenings prophesied by the book of Revelation.

Later, when Akiva arrived to discharge his indebtedness, the matrona not only refused to accept the money, but insisted upon Akiva's receiving a large share of what the sea had brought to her ( Commentaries to Ned.

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.

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 ".

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 ".

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.

" Jeremy Bentham, who had been a critic of the Commentaries when it was first published, credits Blackstone with having: "... taught jurisprudence to speak the language of the scholar and the gentleman ; put a polish upon that rugged science, cleansed her from the dust and cobwebs of the office and, if he has not enriched her with that precision which is drawn only from the sterling treasury of the sciences, has decked her out to advantage from the toilet of classical erudition, enlivened her with metaphors and allusions and sent her abroad in some measure to instruct.

There is a lot of what would later be called " Whig history " in the Commentaries ; the easy and contradictory assurance that England's current political settlement represented the optimal state of rational and just government, while claiming simultaneously that this optimal state was an ideal that had always existed in the past, despite the many struggles in England's actual history between overreaching kings and wayward Parliaments.

The lectures of Chancellor Kent in the course of four years had developed into the first two volumes of his Commentaries, the second volume being published November, 1827.

As detailed in the Kayfabe Commentaries release " Timeline of WWE: 1997 ", Cornette described this concept as a combination of a cage which surrounded the majority of the ringside area ( this was a cage design which was popular in Memphis wrestling promotions ), and the cage used in both the NWA and WCW for their WarGames matches ( which had a top on the cage ).

Condorcanqui's interest in the Indian cause had been spurred by the re-reading of one the Royal Commentaries of the Incas, a romantic and heroic account of the history and culture of the ancient Incas.

In 1804 he published a Treatise on the Law of Bankruptcy in Scotland, which he subsequently enlarged and published in 1826 under the title of Commentaries on the Law of Scotland and on the principles of Mercantile Jurisprudence, an institutional work of the very highest excellence, which has had its value acknowledged by such eminent jurists as Joseph Story and James Kent.

According to Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life, she had several brothers, two of whom are Frederick ( in the book ), Joe ( who appears in the movies ) and an illegitimate brother named Willie Humphrey, to whom she was briefly married.

These lectures were afterward published as " Commentaries " ( perushim ) on the books of the Holy Scriptures, and Alshich gives a remarkable reason for their publication: " Many of those who had listened to my lectures repeated them partly or wholly in their own names.

The author repeatedly declares that in their printed form ( as " Commentaries ") he greatly curtailed them by omitting everything which was not absolutely necessary, or which he had already mentioned in another place.

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.

So much was this the case that the Commentaries rank second only to the Bible as a literary and intellectual influence on the history of American institutions ".

While primarily remembered today for his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses because of its influence on William Shakespeare's works, in his own time he was most famous for his translation of Caesar's Commentaries, and his translations of the sermons of John Calvin were important in spreading the doctrines of the Protestant Reformation.

In 1818, to counterbalance the influence of the Bible Society and especially of Scott's Commentaries, he began to edit the Family Bible of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

" 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.

Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States § 1858 ( 1833 )

" In the United States, the Commentaries influenced John Marshall, James Wilson, John Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln, and remain frequently cited in Supreme Court decisions.

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

Blackstone ’ s Commentaries: with notes of reference, to the Constitution and laws, of the federal government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: in five volumes, with an appendix to each volume, containing short tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a connected view of the laws of Virginia, as a member of the federal union / by St. George Tucker.

He is most remembered today for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The Amistad, along with his magisterial Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, first published in 1833.

* 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.

* Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States First Edition on Google Books: Volume I, Volume II and Volume III

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.

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In Commentaries on the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, Garran noted that, since the Australian executive is national in nature ( being dependent on the nationally elected House of Representatives, rather than the Senate ), " the Governor-General, as the official head of the Executive, does not in the smallest degree represent any federal element ; if he represents anything he is the image and embodiment of national unity and the outward and visible representation of the Imperial relationship of the Commonwealth.

( Social and Economic Commentaries on Classical Texts ; 4 ).

Recently Discovered Additions to Early Christian Literature ; Commentaries of Origen

In these Commentaries a new interpretation of the apocalyptic accounts is given: Babylon no longer represents the city of Rome, but Córdoba, seat of the Umayyad emirs of Al-Andalus ; the Beast, once a symbol of the Roman Empire, now stands for the Islamic invaders who in this time threatened to destroy Western Christianity and who made raids on the territories of the Asturian Kingdom.

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.

* Commentaries on Pindar by Eustathius of Thessalonica ;

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* Commentaries on the Attic Orators (, Perì tôn Attikôn rhētórōn ), which, however, only deal with Lysias, Isaeus, Isocrates and ( by way of supplement ) Dinarchus ;

Diogenes Laërtius says that he left behind Commentaries, which consisted of 30, 000 lines ; but of these only fragments have been preserved.

** 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 "

Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books / by Sir William Blackstone ... ; together with such notes of enduring value as have been published in the several English editions ; and also, a copious analysis of the contents ; and additional notes with references to English and American decisions and statutes, to date, which illustrate or change the law of the text ; also a full table of abbreviations and some considerations regarding the study of the law, by Thomas M. Cooley.