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  2. Black's Law Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    978-1-5392-2975-9. Website. Black's Law Dictionary. Black's Law Dictionary [BLD] is the most frequently used legal dictionary in the United States. [ 1] Henry Campbell Black (1860–1927) was the author of the first two editions of the dictionary.

  3. Henry Campbell Black - Wikipedia

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    Henry Campbell Black (October 17, 1860 – March 19, 1927) was the founder of Black's Law Dictionary, the definitive legal dictionary first published in 1891. Born in Ossining, New York , went to school at Trinity College in Connecticut, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1880, a master’s degree in 1887, and an Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree in ...

  4. Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia

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    Sovereign citizens' legal theories reinterpret the Constitution of the United States through selective reading of law dictionaries (notably an obsolete version of Black's Law Dictionary), state court opinions, or specific capitalization, and incorporate other details from a variety of sources including the Uniform Commercial Code, the Articles ...

  5. Bryan A. Garner - Wikipedia

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    Bryan A. Garner. Bryan Andrew Garner (born November 17, 1958) is an American legal scholar and lexicographer. He has written more than two dozen books about English usage and style [ 1] such as Garner's Modern English Usage for a general audience, and others for legal professionals. [ 2][ 3] Garner also wrote two books with Justice Antonin ...

  6. Freeman (Thirteen Colonies) - Wikipedia

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    Black's Law Dictionary (9th edition) defines Freeman as follows: 1. A person who possesses and enjoys all the civil and political rights belonging to the people under a free government. 2. A person who is not a slave. 3. Hist. A member of a municipal corporation (a city or a borough) who possesses full civic rights, esp. the right to vote.

  7. Natural-born-citizen clause (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The 2nd Edition of Black's Law Dictionary in 1910 defined "native" as a "natural-born subject or citizen ; a denizen by birth ; one who owes his domicile or citizenship to the fact of his birth within the country referred to. The term may also include one born abroad, if his parents were then citizens of the country, and not permanently ...

  8. Citizenship Clause - Wikipedia

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    Citizenship Clause. The Citizenship Clause is the first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was adopted on July 9, 1868, which states: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

  9. Rule against perpetuities - Wikipedia

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    Black's Law Dictionary defines the rule against perpetuities as "[t]he common-law rule prohibiting a grant of an estate unless the interest must vest, if at all, no later than 21 years (plus a period of gestation to cover a posthumous birth) after the death of some person alive when the interest was created." [8]

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