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A law dictionary, or, The interpreter of words and terms : used either in the common or statute laws of that part of Great Britain, call'd England : and in tenures and jocular customs : first published by the learned Dr. Cowel, and now very much augmented and improv'd, by the addition of many thousand words, as are found in our histories, antiquities, cartularies, rolls, registers, and other manuscript records, not hitherto explain'd in any dictionary, to the year 1708 : with an appendix, containing the antient names of places in (that part of Great-Britain call'd) England, very necessary for the use of all such, that converse with ancient deeds, charters, &c

Cowell, John (London : Printed for D. Browne, R. Sare, S. Battersby, J. Walthoe, J. Nicholson, J. Sprint, G. Conyers, T. Ballard and Edw. Place, 1708)
Law dictionary : adapted to the constitution and laws of the United States of America, and of the several states of the American union

Bouvier, John (Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1860 [c.1852] , 1860)
Commercial dictionary : containing the present state of mercantile law, practice and custom. Intended for the use of the cabinet, the counting-house, and the library.

Montefiore, Joshua (London : Printed for the author, and sold at 25, Finch-Lane, Cornhill, 1803., 1803)
Law-dictionary and glossary, interpreting such difficult and obscure words and terms, as are found either in our common or statute, ancient or modern, laws. With references to the several statutes, records, registers, charters, ancient deeds, manuscripts and law-books, wherein the words and terms are used.

Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679 (London : Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, M. Welllington, R. Gosling, W. Mears, J. Browne, J. Hooke, F. Clay, and E. Nutt, 1717., 1717)
Law dictionary of words, terms, abbreviations and phrases which are peculiar to the law and of those which have a peculiar meaning in the law : containing Latin phrases and maxims with their translations and a table of the names of the reports and their abbreviations

Ballentine, James A., 1871-1949 (San Francisco : Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1916., 1916)

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