Law Dictionary And Glossary Primarily For The Use Of Students But Adapted Also To The Use Of The Profession At Large

Author : J. Kendrick Kinney
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ISBN 13 : 9781330479063
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Law Dictionary and Glossary written by J. Kendrick Kinney and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Law Dictionary and Glossary: Primarily for the Use of Students, but Adapted Also to the Use of the Profession at Large The purpose of this book is to give with brevity, but with precision and reasonable fullness, the meaning of the words and phrases in the books of the law; - to give the meaning not only of the modern words, but of the words, in whatever tongue, and whether now a part of living legal language or not, which have had legal use and function, and which thus mark the lines upon which the law has grown, and the salient points in its history with which the student should become familiar. This attention to the older and even the obsolete words has been thought necessary to make the book most largely useful to beginners in the study of the law, for whose use it is more especially designed; and this attention to the older words, the more recent words not being in any way neglected, ought not to render the book less useful to the members of the profession; for they, even more than beginners, are students of the law, and, even more than beginners, know that truly to understand the newer words, and the newer meanings of the old words, they must in many cases look far back in its history, to Norman or to Saxon times, and to usages of which these old words and these old meanings are the most considerable existing memorial. In preserving this older and now half-alien matter of the law, an effort has been made, however, by paragraphing the matter of titles, and by grouping those matters which have been derived from older and foreign systems, to bring forward into clear relief those matters which are a part of the law, or are current in the language of the law, as it now stands. This has not been easy. Matter which has been treated as still alive others may regard as dead, or at least too old for any present usefulness, while matter which has been treated as obsolete or obsolescent others may regard as still in good use. It is hoped, however, that the effort will be found materially to aid in discriminating these various matters new and old one from another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.