BOOK THE FIRST . BY WILLIAM BLACKSTONE , Esq . VINERIAN
ERRATA .
INTRODUCTION .
Book I. Of the Rights of Persons .
Section the first . On the STUDY of the LAW . [A]
Section the second . Of the NATURE of LAWS in general .
Section the third . Of the LAWS of ENGLAND .
Section the fourth . Of the COUNTRIES subject to the LAWS of ENGLAND .
Chapter the first . Of the absolute RIGHTS of INDIVIDUALS .
Chapter the second . Of the PARLIAMENT .
Chapter the third . Of the KING , and his TITLE .
Chapter the fourth . Of the KING's royal FAMILY .
Chapter the fifth . Of the COUNCILS belonging to the KING .
Chapter the sixth . Of the KING's DUTIES .
Chapter the seventh . Of the KING's PREROGATIVE .
Chapter the eighth . Of the KING's REVENUE .
Chapter the ninth . Of subordinate MAGISTRATES .
Chapter the tenth . Of the PEOPLE , whether ALIENS , DENIZENS , or NATIVES .
Chapter the eleventh . Of the CLERGY .
Chapter the twelfth . Of the CIVIL STATE .
Chapter the thirteenth . Of the MILITARY and MARITIME STATES .
Chapter the fourteenth . Of MASTER and SERVANT .
Chapter the fifteenth . Of HUSBAND and WIFE .
Chapter the sixteenth . Of PARENT and CHILD .
Chapter the seventeenth . Of GUARDIAN and WARD .
Chapter the eighteenth . Of CORPORATIONS .
Transcriber's Notes: Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England was first published in 1765-1769. It contains a number of archaic spellings (including "goaler" for "gaoler" and "it's" for "its") that have been preserved as they appear in the original. All such spellings have been verified using the Oxford English Dictionary. Inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, capitalization, and italicization have also been preserved. Obvious printer errors have been preserved and marked with red dotted underlining. Hover the mouse over the underlined text to view a Transcriber's Note. Errata in the original are hyperlinked to the Errata section.
Long s (ſ) in the original has been modernized as modern s. The archaic convention of placing quotation marks at the beginning of each line of a quotation has also been modernized so that quotation marks appear only at the beginning and end of the quotation.
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COMMENTARIES
ON THE
LAWS
OF
ENGLAND.
