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Black died in 1927 and future editions were titled Black's Law Dictionary. The sixth and earlier editions of the book additionally provided case citations for the term cited, which was viewed by lawyers as its most useful feature, providing a useful starting point with leading cases. The invention of the Internet made legal research easier ...
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts is a 2012 book by United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and lexicographer Bryan A. Garner.Following a foreword written by Frank Easterbrook, then Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Scalia and Garner present textualist principles and canons applicable to the analysis of all legal texts, following by ...
The Color of Law. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America is a 2017 book by Richard Rothstein on the history of racial segregation in the United States. The book documents the history of state sponsored segregation stretching back to the late 1800s and exposes racially discriminatory policies put forward ...
D'Anvers' Abridgment. Danish Census Book. Davis' Criminal Law Consolidation Acts. De jure belli ac pacis. Destination Tables. Dicey Morris & Collins. The Dictionary of Legal Quotations. Digest (Roman law) The Digest.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary. Bouvier's Law Dictionary is a set consisting of two or three books with a long tradition in the United States legal community. The first edition was written by John Bouvier. John Bouvier (1787–1851) was born in Codognan, France, [citation needed] but came to the United States at an early age.
A law book is a book about law. It is possible to make a distinction between "law books" on the one hand, and "books about law" on the other. [1] This distinction is "useful". [2] A law book is "a work of legal doctrine". [1] It consists of "law talk", that is to say, propositions of law. [2] ". The first duty of a law book is to state the law ...
Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England is an encyclopedia of English law edited by Alexander Wood Renton and (captain) Maxwell Alexander Robertson (sometimes called "Max Robertson"). [1] The first edition was published as Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, Being a New Abridgment, in thirteen volumes (including a supplement edited by A W Donald ...
The title page of the first book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1st ed., 1765). The Commentaries on the Laws of England [1] (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford between 1765 and 1769.