William Blackstone

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Thirteenth.  Of the TITLE to THINGS REAL, in General. This chapter is about feelings and actions and how one leads to the...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Chapter the Twelfth.  Of ESTATES in SEVERALTY, JOINT-TENANCY, COPARCENARY, and COMMON. This chapter is about invention and discovery.  The ostensible subject is the different...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Eleventh.  Of Estates in Possession, Remainder and Reversion. This chapter is about a marginal area of property...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Tenth.  Of Estates, upon Condition. This chapter is haunted.  The estates Blackstone describes here have an almost...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh  Book the Second.  Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Ninth.  Of Estates, Less than Freehold. This chapter is about how to give somebody property without giving him...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Chapter the Eighth.  Of FREEHOLDS, NOT of INHERITANCE. There’s a saying that the rich plan for three generations while the poor plan for...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Chapter the Seventh.  Of FREEHOLD ESTATES, of INHERITANCE. This chapter is about the way you need to own something in order to pass it...

Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Sixth.  Of  the Modern ENGLISH TENURES. Okay, I finally get it.  I get why it’s such a big deal to ‘own...

  Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second.  Chapter the Fourth.  Of the FEODAL SYSTEM. For Blackstone it is an article of faith that the way things are can be...