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Reprint of the second edition of the first American law dictionary. In this edition Bouvier revised about half of his entries and added a thousand new ones. He also incorporated numerous local references, which were compiled through an extensive correspondence with members of all but one of the state bars. The second volume concludes with two appendices. The first is a list of English Chancery, Common Law and Ecclesiastical Reports and a list of the titles published by The Law Library (First, Second and Third Series). The second is a reprint of Robert Kelham's A Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language. 2 volumes. viii, [13]-740; 772 pp.

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[T]he best book of the kind in use for the American lawyer. It contains sufficient reference to English and foreign law, with a very full synopsis of such portions of American jurisprudence as requires elucidation. In the second edition the author recast many of the titles, and added about one thousand new ones. By means of correspondence with members of the bar in different states, and by a careful examination of local treatises the author has produced not only a good general American Law Dictionary, but one sufficiently local for all practical purposes. --J.G. Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 138

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John Bouvier [1787-1851] emigrated with his family from France to the United States during the French Revolution, settling in Philadelphia in 1802. In 1814 he started a newspaper, the American Telegraph, in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, which he published until 1820. Admitted to the practice in 1818, Bouvier became a leading member of the Philadelphia Bar. He was appointed Recorder of Philadelphia in 1836 and associate justice of the Court of Criminal Sessions in 1838. In addition to this dictionary, he was the author of Institutes of American Law (1851) and edited an edition of Matthew Bacon's Abridgment of the Law (1842-1846).

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