| Summary: Blacks Law Dictionary is the quintessential legal reference. Black's Law Dictionary has been around and used by law students, professors, and attorneys alike for more than one-hundred years. |
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Black’s Law Dictionary is considered to be the definitive legal reference book. Blacks Law Dictionary was first published in 1891, predating even the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED) by nearly 40 years!
Black’s Law Dictionary gets its title from its founder and original publisher, Henry Campbell Black. Henry Campbell Black was an American constitutional scholar, and a founder of the National Association for Constitutional Government, which was organized “to expound and defend the principles of Constitutional Government.”
That first edition published in 1891 had the impressive title of “A Dictionary of Law: Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern”. It was unique in that it included case citations for the legal terms, which, to the dismay of many, were removed in the 7th Edition.
Black’s Law Dictionary is now over 100 years old, and on its 8th Edition.
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