Jurisprudence

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Chapter the sixteenth.  Of PARENT and CHILD. This chapter is about “the most universal relation in nature.” (p. 434)   My nine-year-old universal relation climbed into bed with...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST.  Chapter the Fifteenth.  Of HUSBAND and WIFE. This chapter about marriage begins by drawing a line: “Our law considers marriage in no other light...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I.  Chapter the thirteenth.  Of the MILITARY and MARITIME STATES. This chapter is about soldiers, or, “such persons as are peculiarly appointed among the rest of...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST: Chapter the twelfth.  Of the CIVIL STATE. This chapter’s subject is “[t]hat part of the nation which .  . includes all orders of men,...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I.  Chapter the Eleventh.  Of the CLERGY. Just when I was thinking that there wasn’t a single point of interest in this chapter’s dry taxonomy of...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK I.  Chapter the tenth. Of the PEOPLE, whether ALIENS, DENIZENS, or NATIVES. This chapter is about the different legal statuses of residents within a governmental territory....

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book 1. Chapter the ninth. Of subordinate MAGISTRATES. This chapter is about the keepers of the king’s peace – sheriffs, under-sheriffs, constables, coroners, bailiffs, and justices of...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book 1. Chapter the Eighth. Of the KING’S REVENUE. Well, I promise I will never again complain about short chapters.  This one, enumerating the various sources of...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh BOOK THE FIRST.  Chapter the seventh.  Of the KING’S PREROGATIVE. Blackstone Weekly is sorry for the long hiatus between entries.  Given that this section of the Commentaries is...