Box 28 contains Bentham's writings on legal theory and a critique of the eighteenth-century jurist William Blackstone.

• PLEASE NOTE: Bentham's 'Comment on the Commentaries' has been published in A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, eds. J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart, London, 1977.

Detailed contents of this box are as follows:

• Folios 1 to 35: Comment on the Commentaries - conduct of the work [c. 1774]
• Folios 36 to 112: Comment on the Commentaries - laws [c.1774 - 1777]
• Folio 113: Comment on the Commentaries - Book III. Ch. I. Beginning; [c. 1774]
• Folio 114: Advertisement upon the Anvil by a hand concerned in the present publication [1774]
• Folios 115 to 116: Comment on the Commentaries B.I. Study, Loose hints [1774]
• Folios 117 to 125: Comment on the Commentaries Common Law - exordium [1774]
• Folios 126 to 137: Comment on the Commentaries Inserenda, Common Law, Unwritten [1774]
• Folios 138 to 178: Comment on the Commentaries Common Law [1774]

Folios from box 28 which have already been partially or fully transcribed are listed under the progress bar below.

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