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The nature of custom : legal science and comparative legal history in Blackstone's Commentaries

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Date
01/04/2021
Author
Cecchinato, Andrew
Funder
European Research Council
Grant ID
740611
Keywords
Legal history
English law
Comparative legal history
Blackstone
Commentaries
Custom
Ius commune
Common law
D111 Medieval History
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Throughout the Commentaries, Blackstone repeatedly availed himself of comparative legal history. Comparison allowed him to detect the invariable principles of legal experience and organise his systematic exposition of English law around them. This method proved crucial in Blackstone’s treatment of custom, as it allowed him to present the chief source of English common law by addressing the main questions concerning the nature of custom that had been raised earlier by Western jurisprudence. The paper will explore the depth of Blackstone’s engagement with such traditions. In doing so, it will investigate whether custom was understood differently on the two sides of the Channel.
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Cecchinato , A 2021 , The nature of custom : legal science and comparative legal history in Blackstone's Commentaries . in W Eves , J Hudson , I Ivarsen & S B White (eds) , Common law, civil law, and colonial law : essays in comparative legal history from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge , pp. 140-160 . https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195.006
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Common law, civil law, and colonial law
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195.006
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2021. Open Access. An online version of this work is published at doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195.006 under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 which permits re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes providing appropriate credit to the original work is given. You may not distribute derivative works without permission. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0.
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The research presented in this article has been supported by the European Research Council, through the Advanced grant n. 740611 , ‘Civil law, common law, customary law: consonance, divergence and transformation in Western Europe from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries’ (see http://clicme.wp.standrews.ac.uk).
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955195
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/26363

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