The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries

Certainly their arrangements are not free from defects.In particular, as Blackstone pointed out, the arrangement of Fitzherbert and Brook was alphabetical, and Bacon purposely avoided any regular order.'But that still leaves the other nine.Kennedy's astonishing error, coupled with his lack of interest in the background to Blackstone, leads him to present an explanation of the structure of the Commentaries in purely ideological terms.But things are not that simple.Legal structures, including the structure of legal treatises, have a strong cultural component which can be uncovered only by historical examination. 4 Much indeed has been written recently on the structure of William Blackstone's Commentaries, most notably by John W.