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Preface Abbreviations Introduction Part I. Blackstone and the Commentaries: 1. The law of England 2. Blackstone's science of legislation Part II. The Judiciary: 3. Equity, principle and precedent 4. Legal principles and law reform 5. Mansfield and the commercial code 6. Common law, principle and precedent 7. Kames, legal history and law reform 8. Kames and the principles of equity Part III. Parliamentary Statute: 9. Statute consolidation 10. Penal law reform Part IV. Bentham: 11. The critique of common law 12. The Digest 13. From Blackstone to the Pannomion Conclusion Bibliography Index.