A LAW DICTIONARY AND GLOSSARY: CONTAINING FULL DEFINITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL TERMS OF THE COMMON THE PRINCIPAL COMMON AND CIVIL LAW MAXIMS. UNIV. OF MICH. LAW LIBRARY. 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, AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON VOLUNTARY ASSIGNMENTS, A TREATISE ON CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE AND A TREATISE ON PRACTICE, &C. 31806 Volum origines rationesque [Labeo] percalluerat; eaque præcipue scientia ad enodandos plerosque juris laquees utebatur. A. GELLIUS, Noet. Att. xiii. 10. SECOND EDITION. Vol. I. NEW YORK: BAKER, VOORHIS & CO., LAW PUBLISHERS, No. 66 NASSAU STREET. 1867. In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. TO THE 243 DEAR SIR, HON. WILLIAM KENT, LL. D. I am sensible of a peculiar propriety in availing myself of your permission to inscribe to you the following work. It embodies (in however imperfect a form) the results of studies which received their earliest impulse and direction under the eye of your venerated father, and it is chiefly designed for use in a profession, in the practical duties of which I first received instruction from yourself. Knowing that, in you, professional eminence has ever been accompanied and adorned by the accomplishments of literature, I feel the less hesitation in offering to your notice a work which, in its general scope and bearing, belongs, perhaps, quite as much to the department of literature as to that of law. Knowing, too, that you are not one of those who, in their desire for improvement, would dissever the science of jurisprudence from its close dependence on the wisdom and learning of the past, I have hoped that you would not view with disapprobation or distaste the frequent references its pages contain to the lore of an almost forgotten age. But my highest satisfaction is in dedicating it to you, as a testimonial of personal esteem and regard, and as an expression of my sense of the unvarying kindness I have ever experienced at your hands. With every wish for your future happiness, and with sentiments of the greatest respect, I remain faithfully, Your friend and servant, ALEX. M. BURRILL. New-York, DEC. 20th, 1950. |