Blackstone: Of the Laws of England

Reading for week two: http://www.constitution.org/tb/tb-1103.htm

Monday

1. Into what two kinds may the municipal law of England be divided?

2. What does the first of these kinds of law include?

3. Where is it to be found?

4. Of what degree of antiquity must its maxims and customs be, to entitle them to validity?

5. Into what three kinds is it distinguishable?

6. How are its customs or maxims to be known; and by whom is there validity to be determined?

7. What is the doctrine of the law, as to following precedents?

Tuesday

8. What three things do the rules relating to particular customs regard?

9. Wherein do the customs of London differ from all others in point of trial?

10. What are the seven necessary requisites to make a custom good?

11. To what, however, must all special customs submit?

12. What are understood by those peculiar laws, which, by custom, are adopted and used only in certain peculiar courts, and jurisdictions?

13. What is understood by each of these laws, absolutely taken?

Wednesday

14. What are the four species of courts, in which these laws are permitted to be used?

15. Under what superintendency, are all these courts?

16. To whom does an appeal from them lie, in the last resort?

Thursday

17. Of what does the second kind of municipal law consist?

18. Into what four kinds is it distinguishable?

19. What two connexions has it with the first kind of municipal law?

20. What are the ten principal rules to be observed with regard to the construction of the second kind of municipal law?

Friday

21. For what purpose are our courts of equity established; and in what matters only are they conversant?