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• A law dictionary containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern

  and including 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 (Google eBook). Also known as "Black's Law Dictionary" this is a free copy of the 1910 edition.

• Black's Law Dictionary - Wikipedia

• Black's Law Dictionary, 1891 First Edition

  A free ebook, 1891 First Edition. "A dictionary of law : containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern; including the principal terms of international, constitutional, and commercial law; with a collection of legal maxims and numerous select titles from the civil law and other foreign systems."

• Black's Law Dictionary, 1910 Second Edition

  A free ebook, 1910, Second Edition. "A Law Dictionary: Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern : and Including 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."

• Blacks Law Dictionary, First and Second Editions

  Easily browseable.

• Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet - Colonial & Southern Genealogies

  Interpreting Colonial Records: Legal and Other Helpful Hints (For Genealogists Researching Virginia and the Southern Colonies).

  • Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II - Colonial Legal Terminology

• Bouvier Law Dictionary

  A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union, by John Bouvier, Revised Sixth Edition, 1856.

• Bouvier's law dictionary and concise encyclopedia ... v. 1. - Full View | HathiTrust Digital Library

  Third revision, eighth edition, 1914.

• Digital Dictionaries: 1481-1916

  Legal dictionaries from Georgetown Law Library

• Glossary of Colonial Terms

• Legal Dictionary | Law.com

  Search Legal Terms and Definitions

• Legal Glossary (English and Latin) | Legal Terminology (UK)

• Legal Terminology: An Historical Introduction to the Technical Language of Law - Wills and Estates

• Legal Terms in Wills and Land Records

• The Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, of Master and Servant, and of the Powers of Courts of Chancery

  By Tapping Reeve, 1816

• The Law of Baron and Femme: Women, Indians, and Patriarchal Guardianship

  by Peter d'Errico, Legal Studies Department, University of Massachusetts/Amherst

• The Legal Genealogist - Sourcing the lingo

• United States Courts - Glossary