Pennsylvania Blackstone; Being a Modification of the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone, With Numerous Alterations and Additions, Designed to Present ... of the Entire Laws of Pennsylvania. 3 vol

Originally published: Carlisle: Printed by George Fleming, 1831. 3 Vols. xvi, 508; xiv, 544; viii, 572 pp. With a New Introduction by William E. Butler, John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, and Mark W. Podvia, Assistant Law Librarian and Archivist, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University. Reprint of the sole edition. In 1834 John Reed [1786-1850], President Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas of the Ninth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, founded Dickinson School of Law, the oldest law school in Pennsylvania. This eminent jurist probably conceived this work as a text for his students. Like Tucker's Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia (1831-32), this work follows the arrangement of Books I-III of Blackstone's Commentaries. Portions of Blackstone's text, enclosed in quotation marks and stripped of their footnotes, alternate with original material on Pennsylvanian and, to some extent, federal law. (References, including case and statutory citations, are included in the text.)