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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Glossary of technical Terms : Phrases and Maxims of the Common Law

    Glossary of technical Terms : Phrases and Maxims of the Common Law Author: Frederic Jesup Stimpson Published: Boston; Little, Brown & Company, 1881. Date of Publication: Boston, February 21, 1881. Jurisdiction: England Introduction The legal terms compiled in this glossary include those relating to civil and canon law, and provide precise definitions based on the…

  • Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims

    A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims Note: it is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. A list of terms are included in that entry. Details of the Dictionary Authors: Frederic Jesup Stimson (1855-1943) and Harvey Cortlandt Voorhees Subtitle: “With an Explanatory List of Abbreviations Used in Law Books.” Note: First edition published…

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Concise Law Dictionary

    Concise Law Dictionary Book Details Compete title: Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases, and Maxims with an Explanatory List of Abbreviations used in Law Books. Copyright: 1881 and 1911. Authors: FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON, PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY (1881): the revised edition is authored by HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES, of THE BOSTON BAR, AUTHOR…

  • 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.…

  • A Dictionary of Law

    A Dictionary of Law One of the historical legal dictionaries is the “Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims.” As the original title states, it is a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence. Compiled and written by attorney William C. Anderson and published in Chicago by…

  • A Dictionary of Law

    A Dictionary of Law One of the historical legal dictionaries is the “Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims.” As the original title states, it is a Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence. Compiled and written by attorney William C. Anderson and published in Chicago by…

  • 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…

  • 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…