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  • Bouvier´s Law Dictionary Content

    Bouvier´s Law Dictionary Content English and Scottish Content VIOLENT PROFITS ACTION OF ADHERENCE ACTIONS ORDINARY ADVOCATION ANN ANNUAL PENSION APPRIZING ARRESTEE ARRESTER ARRESTMENT ASSIGNATION ASSISORS ASSYTHMENT BAIR-MAN BAIRN’S PART CAUTION, TURATORY CAUTIONER CEDENT CHARGER CIRCUMDUCTION CIRCUMVENTION COURTESY or CURTESY CURIALITY CURTESY or COURTESY DECREE ARBITRAL DECREE OF REGISTRATION TO DISPONE DYVOUR DYVOUR’S HABIT EXHIBITION FACTORY…

  • Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

    Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims Full Title A Dictionary of Law, Consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims and an Exposition of the Principles of Law: Comprising a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence Details Author: William C. Anderson (United…

  • Common Law Definition

    Common Law Definition The term “common law” is used in a number of different senses. In medieval English law it denoted that law which was administered by the king’s courts and which was, in principle at least, common to the whole realm. The common law, in this sense, was to be distinguished from the law…

  • Black’s Law Dictionary

    Black’s Law Dictionary The sustained popularity of this Legal dictionary since its appearance (like Bouvier’s Law Dictionary in the XIX Century) it was attributed to the scholarship and Learning of Henry Campbell Black, and to the plan adopted by him for the compilation of a legal lexicon. Now the editor is Bryan Garner, a lexicographer.…

  • Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary

    Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary The last 17th century edition of a significant contribution to English legal lexicography, superseding Rastell’s effort and praised by Holdsworth and Cowley, who term it, respectively, “more elaborate” than its predecessors and “scholarly”. Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else especially clean and well-preserved; the Taussig copy. Printed for…

  • Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary

    Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary The last 17th century edition of a significant contribution to English legal lexicography, superseding Rastell’s effort and praised by Holdsworth and Cowley, who term it, respectively, “more elaborate” than its predecessors and “scholarly”. Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else especially clean and well-preserved; the Taussig copy. Printed for…

  • Glossarium Archaiologicum

    Glossarium Archaiologicum: continens latino-barbara, peregrina, obsoleta, & novatae significationis vocabula About the Author: Henry Spelman (c.1564-1641) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “After graduating from Cambridge in 1582, Henry Spelman studied at Lincoln’s Inn, but evinced no interest in the practice of law. He soon returned to…

  • An Epitome of All the Common & Statute Laws of This Nation Now in Force

    An Epitome of All the Common & Statute Laws of This Nation Now in Force: Wherein More Than Fifteen Hundred of the Hardest Words or Terms of the Law are Explained About the Author: William Sheppard (d. c.1675) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “William Sheppard was…

  • An Epitome of All the Common & Statute Laws of This Nation Now in Force

    An Epitome of All the Common & Statute Laws of This Nation Now in Force: Wherein More Than Fifteen Hundred of the Hardest Words or Terms of the Law are Explained About the Author: William Sheppard (d. c.1675) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “William Sheppard was…

  • A Philologicall Commentary

    A Philologicall Commentary, or an Illustration of the Most Obvious and Useful Words in the Law Full Title of the Dictionary: A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as…

  • A Philologicall Commentary

    A Philologicall Commentary, or an Illustration of the Most Obvious and Useful Words in the Law Full Title of the Dictionary: A philologicall commentary, or, An illustration of the most obvious and useful words in the lavv with their distinctions and divers acceptations, as they are found as well in reports antient and modern as…

  • The Interpreter

    The Interpreter, or Booke Containing the Signification of Words About the Author: John Cowell (1554-1611) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “ohn Cowell was born in Swimbridge, Devon. After attending Eaton College, he attended King’s College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1575, an MA in 1578 and…

  • The Interpreter

    The Interpreter, or Booke Containing the Signification of Words About the Author: John Cowell (1554-1611) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “ohn Cowell was born in Swimbridge, Devon. After attending Eaton College, he attended King’s College, Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1575, an MA in 1578 and…

  • Termes de la ley

    Termes de la ley or Exposiciones terminorum legum anglorum About the Author: John Rastell (c.1475-1536) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): ohn Rastell was born into a prominent local family, probably in Coventry. He was a “renaissance man” – lawyer, architect, musician, and playwright, but most conspicuously,…

  • Termes de la ley

    Termes de la ley or Exposiciones terminorum legum anglorum About the Author: John Rastell (c.1475-1536) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): ohn Rastell was born into a prominent local family, probably in Coventry. He was a “renaissance man” – lawyer, architect, musician, and playwright, but most conspicuously,…