Download or read book A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government written by Jeremy Bentham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9). He provides important refelctions on the nature of law, and more particularly on the nature of customary and statute law, and on judicial interpretation.