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Description and Holding Information
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New Law-Dictionary, 1772
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"The ninth edition; With Great Additions and Improvements, from the latest reports and statutes to this time; Also many new titles, not in any other work of the kind; Originally compiled by Giles Jacob; Now corrected and greatly enlarged: by Owen Ruffhead and J. Morgan, unpaginated (979 pp.), London, pr. by W. Strahan and M. Woodfali for J. Beecroft, et al, 1772. (According to the preface in this edition, the eighth edition was some-thing of an embarrassment, "being very defective and erroneous, and almost wholly engrafted, with many of its imperfections, into another compilation by a person formerly engaged to render it more perfect. Under these circumstances … the proprietors resolved to publish a ninth edition, and not to spare any expense to have it corrected and enlarged. So as to merit the acceptance of the public."—Pref. 1dt page. This edition was only half finished by Ruffhead at the time of his death. Morgan was commissioned by the publishers to complete Ruffhead‘s work.)
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Title:
A new law-dictionary : containing the interpretation and definition of words and terms used in the law : as also the law and practice, under the proper heads and titles : together with such learning as explains the history and anitquity of the law : our manners, customs, and original government : collected and abstracted from all dictionaries, abridgments, institutes, commentaries, reports, year-books, charters, registers, chronicles, and histories, published to this time : adapted to the use of barristers, students, and practisers of the law, members of Parliament, justices of peace, clergymen, and other gentlemen, &c.
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OCLC Number:
62110368
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