ISBN: 9781240003358

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV. OF OFFENCES AGAINST GOD AND RELIGION. In the present chapter we are to enter upon the detail of the [ 41 1 several species of crimes and misdemeanors, with the punishment annexed to each by the law of England. It was observed, in the beginning of this book, that crimes and misdemeanors are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties, owing to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity. And in'the very entrance of these Commentaries it was shown, that human laws can have no concern with any but social and relative duties; being intended only to regulate the conduct of man, considered under various relations, as a member of civil society. All crimes ought, therefore, to be estimated merely according to the mischiefs which they produce in civil society: and of consequence, private vices or the breach of mere absolute duties, which man is hound to perform considered only as an individual, are not, cannot be, the object of any municipal law; any farther than as by then- evil example, or other pernicious effects, they may prejudice the community, and thereby become a species of public crimes. Thus the vice of drunkenness, if committed privately and alone, is beyond the knowledge and of course beyond the reach of human tribunals: but if committed publicly, in the face of the world, its evil example makes it liable to temporal censures. The vice of lying, which consists (abstractedly taken) in a criminal violation of truth, and therefore in any shape is derogatory from sound [ 42 ] morality, is not however taken notice of by our law, unless it Carries with it- some public inconvenience, as spreading false news; or some social injury, as slander and malicious prosecution, for which a private recompense is given. Books Books ~~ Law~~ General Commentaries-On-the-Laws-of-England-Another~~William-Blackstone Gale Ecco, Making of Modern Law<

ISBN: 9781240003358

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major le… More...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<sourceLibrary>Harvard Law School Library<collection ID>ocm12657805<Notes><imprintFull>New York : W.E. Dean, 1851. <collation>2 v. ; 23 cm. William Blackstone, Books, Reference and Language, Commentaries On The Laws Of England: In Four Books, With An Analysis Of The Work. Volume 1 Of 2 Books>Reference and Language <

ISBN: 9781240003358

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major l… More...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm12657805New York: W. E. Dean, 1851. 2 v.; 23 cm. | Commentaries On The Laws Of England by William Blackstone Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Reference > Law P10116, William Blackstone<

ISBN: 9781240003358

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major l… More...

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20, 000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm12657805New York: W. E. Dean, 1851. 2 v.; 23 cm. | Commentaries On The Laws Of England Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Reference P10116, Gale, Making of Modern Law<

ISBN: 9781240003358

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