Bl. Com.

Bl. Com.

1. (law) Abbreviation of Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.
   • 1787, Charles Durnford, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Kings' Bench, Parts 5-7, page 469:

     As well the existence of private customs must be shewn, as that the thing in dispute is within the custom alledged. 1 Bl. Com. 76.

   • 1838, Thomas Sergeant, View of Land Laws of Pennsylvania, page 195:

     A manor could not legally exist without a court baron.^{(1)
     (1)} 2 Bl. Com. 90. 3 Bl. Com. 33. 4 Bl. Com. 273.

   • 1877, John Barbee Minor, Institutes of Common and Statute Law, volume 2, page 70:

     Fealty. Belongs to copyhold, as to all feudal tenures, except estates at will. (1 Th. Co. Lit. 675 ; 2 Bl. Com. 97.) 2e.

   • 1987, Alexander M. Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary, page 620:

     Feudum antiquum ; an ancient feud or fief ; a fief descended to the vassal from his ancestors. 2 Bl. Com. 212, 221.

   • 2011, Eimear Spain, The Role of Emotions in Criminal Law Defences, page 117:

     He saw necessity as amounting to a 'defect of the will' which renders one incapable of committing a crime, 4 Bl. Com. 27.

This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in legal citation, with respect to any of the four volumes of commentaries written by English Jurist Sir William Blackstone.

(This is usually followed by the page number)

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