Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws...
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William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone; 1595 – 26 May 1675) was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston...
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Look up Blackstone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blackstone may refer to: Charles Blackstone (born 1977), fiction writer Elliott Blackstone (1924–2006)...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England (redirect from Blackstone's Commentaries)
informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published...
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William Blackstone (1723–1780) was an English judge and jurist. William Blackstone may also refer to: William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881), his grandson...
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William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 – November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist. He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial...
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than that one innocent suffer. as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work Commentaries on the Laws of England, published...
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Sir William Blackstone is a bronze statue by Paul Wayland Bartlett of the English legal scholar William Blackstone. It is located at E. Barrett Prettyman...
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Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. Blackstone's private equity business has been one of...
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Common law (section Blackstone)
criticism of this pretense of the legal profession but acceptance of William Blackstone's declaratory theory of common law was near universal for centuries...
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writ of habeas corpus was described in the eighteenth century by William Blackstone as a "great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement"...
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treason were instead hanged, drawn and quartered. The English jurist William Blackstone supposed that the difference in sentencing, although "full as terrible...
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I am most thankful for are our Blackstone Legal Fellowship graduates." The program is named for Sir William Blackstone, the eighteenth century English...
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colonial times. In English, the river is named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton), who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts in...
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part of it. He also held that the Charter prohibited slavery. Sir William Blackstone published a critical edition of the 1215 Charter in 1759, and gave...
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law and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. Sir William Blackstone described this right as an auxiliary right, supporting the natural...
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William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881) was an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was the son of James Blackstone, barrister-at-law...
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incorporated with the name of Blackstone, in honor of the influential English jurist William Blackstone. The Blackstone Historic District, Butterwood...
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people to conform to that law is morally acceptable. In the 1760s, William Blackstone described the thesis: "This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind...
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2014, the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park was established. The river is named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton)...
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justices of the peace, sheriffs, and sergeants. The 1826 edition of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England reiterated that "the title should...
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and William Blackstone were evident at the Constitutional Convention. Prior to and during the framing and signing of the Constitution, Blackstone, Hume...
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to 1779 is the title of a collection of nominate reports, by Sir William Blackstone, of cases decided between approximately 1746 and 1780. For the purpose...
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1485, the day before his victory over Richard at Bosworth Field. Sir William Blackstone called Henry's hereditary claim "the most remote and unaccountable...
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VIII, were found guilty of treason for this reason. The jurist Sir William Blackstone writes that "the plain intention of this law is to guard the Blood...
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been taken of Parliament's sovereignty. According to the jurist Sir William Blackstone, "It has sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making, confirming...
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Delegate, William Blackstone. Disgusted by the chaotic state of the press and antagonized by Vice-Chancellor George Huddesford, Blackstone called for...
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Cumberland, Rhode Island (category Prince William, Duke of Cumberland)
The town was named in honor of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland. William Blackstone (also spelled William Blaxton in colonial times) was the first...
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Bellot (1902), p. 28 Bellot (1902), p. 290 Odgers, William Blake (1918). "Sir William Blackstone". Yale Law Journal. The Yale Law Journal Company, Inc...
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Timothy Beach Blackstone (March 28, 1829 – May 26, 1900) was an American railroad executive, businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He is descended...
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