A Compendious Law Dictionary, Containing Both an Explanation of the Terms and the Law Itself: Intended for the Use of the Country Gentleman, the Merchant, and the Professional Man
Excerpt from A Compendious Law Dictionary, Containing Both an Explanation of the Terms and the Law Itself
A dictionary of the Laws of England, undertaken with the view of arranging properly, with regard to matter and method, and at the same time compressing into a narrow compass, the substance of the many voluminous works written on the Statute and Common Law, cannot, it is presumed, fail to be acceptable to every one, in any manner engaged in a practical department of the law.