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 OF “the LAW OF ARREST IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL ACTIONS”

Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY (Boston)

Prefatory Note

In preparing this new edition of Stimson’s Law Glossary an efiort has been made to retain the excellent and scholarly work of Professor Stimson as originally prepared by him. Few changes have been found advisable. The work of the present editor, therefore, has been mainly to supplement rather than revise. In pursuing this plan nearly two thousand important words have been added, and many citations and references inserted designed to lead the researcher to a fuller understanding of the meaning and practical use of the words defined and ex plained. These references are designedly to books and reports most accessible to students of Law, and their needs have ever been held paramount. For their use, too, an explanatory list of abbreviations used in law books has been carefully prepared, and added under the title Abbreviations.’ This will undoubtedly be found an important addition to the general scope of the work. A table of British Regnal years has also been added in the Appendix. References to words defined in this book are in small capitals, and references to other books and decisions are in italics.