IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS ADD 210
Held at: University College London
Title: Wilkinson (John) Lecture Notes
Date(s): Created 1758
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Wilkinson | John | fl 1758
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
John Wilkinson was a student of Corpus Christi College Oxford.
Sir William Blackstone: born in London, 1723; English jurist; elected the first holder of a Chair (the Vinerian Professorship) of common law at Oxford, 1758; his lectures formed the basis of his influential Commentaries on the Laws of England (4 volumes, 1765-1769), describing the doctrines of English law, which became the basis of university legal education in England and North America; knighted, 1770; died at Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 1780.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes from a course of lectures in law, given in Oxford by Sir William Blackstone.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Open.
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Normal copyright restrictions apply.
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Presented by Lady Amos in 1941.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica online.
Date(s) of descriptions: 1999, revised Jul 2001