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Blackstone, William (1723–1780)| English jurist who wrote to defend the common law of England as a natural and coherent system, and published his Commentaries on the Laws of England 1765–70. A barrister from 1746, he became the first professor of English Law at Oxford 1758, and a justice of the Court of Common Pleas 1770. Knighted 1770. |
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