Commentaries

1. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 51 2 passages anchored here

   Relied on as a standard legal commentary supporting statements about property and libel law.

   “It was this equitable principle of the wife’s separate estate which formed the model of the legal separate estate created by the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1870 and 1882.

2. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 refuted 1 citation

   lecture xii.: sovereignty.

   The Commentaries is explicitly cited as a work whose ordering and propositions Bentham and Austin sought to refute.

   The desire to expose the fallacies of this portion of the Commentaries furnished Bentham with his principal motive for writing the Fragment on Government, and Austin with his chief inducement to determine the Province of Jurisprudence, and the latter seems to me to have thought that the propositions he disputed would be most effectually disposed of, if they were contradicted in the order given them by their author.

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