A LAW DICTIONARY
DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS AND PHRASES
OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH JURISPRU-_
DENCE, ANCIENT AND MODERN
AND INCLUDING m
THE PRINCIPAL TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL, CONSTITUTIONAL, ECCLESIASTICAL
AND COMMERCIAL LAW, AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, WITH A COLLECTION OF LEGAL MAXIMS, NUMEROUS SELECT TITLES FROM THE
ROMAN, MODERN CIVIL, SCOTCH, FRENCH, SPANISH, AND
MEXICAN LAW, AND OTHER FOREIGN SYSTEMS,
AND A TABLE OF ABBREVIATIONS
BY
HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M.A.
AUTHOR OF TREATISES ON JUDGMENTS, TAX TITLES, INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
BANKRUPTCY, MORTGAGES, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW,
INTERPRETATION OF LAWS, ETC.
SECOND EDITION
ST. PAUL, MINN.
WEST PUBLISHING CO.
Copyricut, 1891
BY
WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY
Coprricut, 1910
BY
WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY
(BL.Law Dict.,2D Bp.)
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION'
IN THE preparation of the present edition of this work, the author has taken
pains, in response to a general demand in that behalf, to incorporate a very great number of additional citations to decided cases, in which the terms or phrases of »
the law have been judicially defined. The general plan, however, has not been to quote seriatim a number of such judicial definitions under each title or heading, but rather to frame a definition, or a series of alternative definitions, expressive of the best and clearest thinking and most accurate statements in the reports, and to cite in support…