Show I SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE IJ the great authority on modem law Jaw was a celebrated jurist who was born in London in 1723 He was a judge a member of Parliament Parlia Parlia- mont ment and the writer of a number of lectures and commentaries that have become standard in the re realm lm of taw law After seven years at the bar in England his prospects were so indifferent he gave his hs practice up as a failure He took up a fellowship fellowship fel- fel at Oxford and the famous Lectures which he gave over a period of f eight years e He subsequently married and became judge of the Common Pleas He died in 1780 revered as on of the worlds world's greatest bar bar- |