Historical Legal Dictionaries
Are you looking for definitions from the past? The Law Library has a large collection of old legal dictionaries and many of them are now also online.
To find print dictionaries, search the Law Library catalog by keywords "law and dictionaries." Then change the Sort to "Date - oldest."
- Legal Dictionaries [Georgetown Law Library]A growing collection of legal dictionaries in English and other languages, going back to titles published in the 1500s. This collection is also available on HeinOnline's Legal Dictionaries collection.
- Legal Classics - Dictionaries [HeinOnline]A collection of about twenty American and English titles, going back to 1684.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia, 3d revision by Call Number: Classified Stacks (KF156 .B68 1914)Publication Date: 1914A 3-volume work. Also available on HeinOnline.- Anderson's Dictionary of Law byCall Number: Classified Stacks (Call Number: KF156 .A58 1889)Publication Date: 1889Subtitled: consisting of judicial definitions and explanations of words, phrases, and maxims, and an exposition of the principles of law: comprising a dictionary and compendium of American and English jurisprudence.
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Using Historical Dictionaries
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Publication Date: 2012
