A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union: With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law, Volume 1

John Bouvier

Jan 2004 · The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

About this ebook

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.

About the author

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).