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An Analysis of the Laws of England is a legal treatise by British legal professor William Blackstone. It was first published by the Clarendon Press in...

The Commentaries on the Laws of England (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the...

The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke. They were first published, in stages, between 1628 and...

an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the...

The English Poor Laws were a system of poor relief in England and Wales that developed out of the codification of late-medieval and Tudor-era laws in 1587–1598...

New England Law | Boston (formerly New England School of Law) is a private law school in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded as Portia School of Law in...

A Bachelor of Laws (Latin: Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B) is an undergraduate law degree offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and...

Discourse on the Study of the Law: 30  Blackstone, An Analysis of the Laws of England: 127  Blackstone's Commentaries: 122  Bouvier's Law Dictionary: 138 ...

Newton's laws of motion are three physical laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws, which...

copies. Later versions of his An Analysis of the Laws of England and the first volume of his Commentaries on the Laws of England were prefaced with copies...

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King...

The regions of England, formerly known as the government office regions, are the highest tier of sub-national division in England. They were established...

Blackstone – An Analysis of the Laws of England Edmund Burke – A Vindication of Natural Society Alban Butler – The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other...

parliament enacted the Clarendon Code, to shore up the position of the re-established Church of England. Charles acquiesced to these new laws even though he...

– 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on...

of the Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.) article Common Law. The History of the Common Law of England, and An analysis of the civil part of the law,...

– a law which dated from the Act of Settlement 1701. However, since the monarch is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, the laws which...

agreeing, by the Treaty of Wallingford, to leave England to Henry, and he inherited the kingdom at Stephen's death a year later. Henry was an energetic and...

Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving...

definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a...