Selden and Hale presented a reorientated vision of the common law, which focused on law as the product of positive imposition. They saw custom as a set of positive rules originating in the past, which had been developed by judicial argument in court. In their vision, the law of nature played a muted role, as a premise of the system rather than as a working tool. This vision proved a particularly influential one on common lawyers, as can be seen from an examination of the most important English jurist of the eighteenth century, Sir William Blackstone.
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Lobban, M. (2016). The Age of Blackstone and Kames. In A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (pp. 91–121). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0913-0_4
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