The Tree of Legal Knowledge: Imagining Blackstone’s Commentaries
The Tree of Legal Knowledge: Imagining Blackstone’s Commentaries
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811986959 | 173 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811986959 | 173 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB
This book restores to view a masterpiece of beauty and legal scholarship, which has been lost for almost two hundred years. Produced anonymously in 1838, The Tree of Legal Knowledge is an elaborate visualization in five large colored plates of the law as stated in Sir William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England. Intended as “an assistant for students in the study of law,” the study aid was not a simple diagram but a beautiful tree with each branch and twig labeled with legal terms and concepts from the Commentaries. Not for law students only, the original was also intended to be of use to the practicing attorney and educated gentleman “in consolidating his learning and forming an instructive and ornamental appendage to an office.”