The purpose of Blackstone's commentaries on the laws of
England was to offer a source of common law that most people could read. The
work was distributed into four volumes: the rights of persons, the rights of
things, private wrongs and public wrongs. They come across a need for laws and
rules at a time when both of these were very crooked and unclear. Blackstone's
commentaries was significant to the development of English law and the
development of the American legal system.
