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John Bouvier
John Bouvier John Bouvier (1787-1851) was a writer, publisher and lawyer. He was born in Codogno, France, in 1787. He immigrated to Philadelphia, with his (quaker) family, when he was fifteen. Bouvier oppened his own press, after working as apprentice to a printer, in 1808. He started in 1814 a weekly newspaper, “The American Telegraph”.…
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Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary
Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary Bibliographic Details Main Editor: Stephen Michael Sheppard. Format: Book and Electronic Format Language: English Call Number: Published: Wolters Kluwer, 2011 Introduction This dictionary is directly based on the sixth edition (1856) of John Bouvier’s law dictionary, which was the first major legal dictionary of the United States. But is “an…
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Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary
Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary Bibliographic Details Main Editor: Stephen Michael Sheppard. Format: Book and Electronic Format Language: English Call Number: Published: Wolters Kluwer, 2011 Introduction This dictionary is directly based on the sixth edition (1856) of John Bouvier’s law dictionary, which was the first major legal dictionary of the United States. But is “an…
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Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law
Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law A communi observantia non est recedendum. There should be no departure from common observance or usage. Co. Litt. 186. A l’impossible nul n’est tenu. No one is bound to do what is impossible. 1 Bouvier’s Institutes of American Law. n. 601. A verbis legis non est…
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, 1914
Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia (3d revision), 8th ed., West Publishing Company, 1914, 3 volumes; reprinted in 1984 by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Acording to Morris L. Cohen et Al. (“How to Find the Law”, 412, 9th ed. 1989), “For almost a hundred years, the numerous…
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Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law
Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law In 1839, John Bouvier wrote and published “A Law Dictionary Adapted To The Constitution And Laws Of The United States Of America And Of The Several States Of The American Union With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law “. Until middle of the XIX century, the “Bouvier”was,…
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Authors of Legal Dictionaries
Authors of Law Dictionaries Albericus de Rosate, 1290-1360: Albericus’s Dictionarium Area: (Roman/Canon Law, 1581) Albericus was “born in Rosciate, near Bergamo, around 1290. He studied in Padua under Oldradus da Ponte and Riccardus Malumbra. He studied also under Ranieri di Forlì and received advice and help from Bartolo da Sassoferrato. In the second decade of…
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Rules
Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]
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Rules
Rule Commmon Meanings In a broad, more general sense, but applied to law, a rule is a "a law or principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable"(1), or "control of or dominion over an area or […]
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Maxims of Law
Maxims of Law or Legal Maxims According to the Bouvier’s Dictionary, a Maxim is an established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant with reason. Maxims in law are somewhat like axioms in geometry. See 1 Commentaries on the Laws of England (by Sir Wllliam Blackstone). 68. They…
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Bouvie’s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law
Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law Review of Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and “Institutes of American Law” This review was written in “North American Review”(July, 1861) by S. Austin Allibone, author of “the Dictionary of Authors” The author of these volumes taught lawyers by his books, but he taught all men by his example,…
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Legal Dictionary
Legal Dictionary “When [legal professionals] look up a word in a dictionary and they often do they are as likely as not to select a poor dictionary.” – Max Radin (“A Juster Justice, a More Lawful Law,” ) What Is a Legal Dictionary? A legal dictionary provides the legal definition of a word or term.…