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This record holds volumes 1 and 4 of the 1775 seventh edition and volume 3 of the original 1768 edition. The new volume covers private wrongs, civil remedies, and testimony. Its verified passages include uses by Scalia in Crawford and Alito in his Fulton concurrence.
Requested text available. Collection target: Volumes 1 and 4, seventh edition (1775), and volume 3, original edition (1768).
William Blackstone · Volume 1 · 7th ed. · 1775
Title page visually verified at PDF page 11; original Bayerische Staatsbibliothek scan. OCR text layer has errors.
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Cites the actual seventh edition. Do not add a star to a printed page number unless its correspondence to original-edition pagination has been independently checked. Rule 15.8(b) supports special pagination where established; this formatter deliberately supplies an edition-specific citation. The title page names the Clarendon Press and says printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince.
William Blackstone · Volume 4 · 7th ed. · 1775
Title page visually verified at PDF page 5. University of California Libraries scan.
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Cites the actual seventh edition. Do not add a star to a printed page number unless its correspondence to original-edition pagination has been independently checked. Rule 15.8(b) supports special pagination where established; this formatter deliberately supplies an edition-specific citation. The title page names the Clarendon Press and says printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince.
William Blackstone · Volume 3 · 1768
John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library; digitized by the Internet Archive with Sloan Foundation funding. The source copy bears John Adams’s signature and annotations. No missing main-text or appendix pages detected. Treat John Adams’s annotations as provenance and separately authored material. The 1768 volume should remain distinct from existing 1775 volumes 1 and 4. OCR requires comparison with the scan for quotations. Search text on PDF pages 85, 86, 153, 154, 176, 385, and 386 was checked against the page images. Long s is rendered as s. The original PDF and its embedded OCR remain unchanged.
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Samuel A. Alito Jr. · Concurrence in the judgment
Commissioners of sewers may impose repair assessments and enforce them by distress or sale. Alito uses these obligations as examples of law violations that do not necessarily threaten public peace or safety.
Samuel A. Alito Jr. · Concurrence in the judgment
Blackstone describes civil liability for hiring another person’s servant during the existing term and distinguishes the servant’s personal remedy from the master’s loss. Alito uses the interference example in his public-peace analysis.
Samuel A. Alito Jr. · Concurrence in the judgment
Blackstone describes actions on the case arising from professional default and common-callings obligations, including an attorney’s failure to appear for trial. Alito cites that default as another example in the public-peace analysis.
Antonin Scalia · Majority
Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 43, 61–62 (2004).
Blackstone contrasts public oral examination, adversarial questioning, and observation of witnesses with secret written examinations. Scalia invokes that historical contrast when construing the Confrontation Clause.
Cites Book the Third, Of Private Wrongs, with the 1768 title-page date. The repository's 1768–1770 range describes the set. This edition remains distinct from the library's 1775 volumes.
Citations use this copy's printed pagination. Do not automatically add a star or treat later editorial matter as Blackstone's original text.
The source is John Adams's copy. His handwritten annotations are separately authored material, and OCR does not reliably transcribe them.