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Book Description: Jacob, Giles.The Laws of Liberty and Property. Or, A Concise Treatise of All the Laws, Statutes and Ordinances, Made for the Benefit and Protection of the Subjects of England: And the Preservation of their Lives, Estates, Lands, and Tenements, Goods, Chattels, Rights, Privileges, &c. The Second Edition. London: John Cooper, 1734. xii , 118 pp. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 13: 978 1 58477 851 6. ISBN 10: 1 58477 851 2. Cloth. $75. Though certainly interested in boosting sales by attracting the widest audience possible, Jacob 1686 1744 was an idealist who believed that widespread knowledge of the law would promote the general welfare of society. This is a theme that ran through his many books, most notably Every Man His Own Lawyer (1736), The Common Law Common Placed (1726) and, to some extent, his great New Law Dictionary (1729). The Laws of Liberty and Property (first published in 1724) outlines the laws 'made and enacted for the Preservation of it' from Magna Carta onward. Topics include 'crimes against the King and the Subject,' 'Civil Rights and Liberties,' Forfeitures,' 'Pardons,' and 'Laws infringing upon Public Liberty.' It is an excellent statement of the Whig principles that would later animate the American Revolution.

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