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NEW LAW DICTIONARY

AND

GLOSSARY:

CONTAINING FULL DEFINITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL

TERMS OF THE COMMON AND CIVIL LAW,

TOGETHER WITH TRANSLATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS OF THE VARIOUS

TECHNICAL PHRASES

IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, OCCURRING IN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN REPORTS, AND STANDARD
TREATISES; EMBRACING ALSO ALL THE PRINCIPAL COMMON AND CIVIL

LAW MAXIMS.

COMPILED ON THE BASIS OF SPELMAN'S GLOSSARY, AND ADAPTED TO THE

JURISPRUDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES;

WITH COPIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS, CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL.

BY ALEXANDER M. BURRILL,

COUNSELLOR AT LAW:

Vocum origines rationesque [Labeo] percalluerat; eaque præcipue scientia ad enodandos plerosque juris laqueos utebatur.
A. GELLIUS, Noct. Att, xiii. 10.