Law * EDITION By WILBER A. OWEN, Of the Ohio bar. HIS is a systematic review of the fundamental principles underlying twenty-seven of the most important legal subjects, by means of 3,000 carefully planned Questions and Answers. It is intended primarily for the use of law students in review work, and in preparing for examination for degrees in law colleges, or for admission to the bar, but is also serviceable to the lawyer who wants to refresh his mind as to the exact scope and bearing of some legal principle. A full and detailed index makes reference easy. Frequently questions involving abstract legal principles come to an attorney's mind while at home evenings, away from his library. If deferred till the next day, they are apt to be forgotten or crowded aside. With Owen's Quizzer in the house, however, it is easy to get at once a concise statement of the principles involved, and to fix a clear idea of the point in mind. published some years ago and at once proved its usefulness and popularity. It has now been revised and enlarged by the author, five new chapters added, and references inserted to the volumes of the Hornbook Series covering the same subjects. 3,000 Questions and Answers, Covering in a thorough and systematic manner ali of the fundamental and underlying principles of the following twenty-five legal subjects: By HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A., Author of Black's "Constitutional Law," "Judgments," "Tax Titles," etc. The work has been recognized as the most convenient and comprehensive one-volume dictionary of the law. It contains definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern, including the principal terms of international, constitutional, and commercial law, together with a collection of legal maxims, and also numerous select titles from the civil law and other foreign systems. It is chiefly required in a dictionary that it should be comprehensive. Its value is impaired if any single word that may reasonably be sought within its covers is not found there. But this comprehensiveness is possisible (within the compass of a single volume) only on condition that whatever is foreign to the true function of a lexicon be rigidly excluded. The work must therefore contain nothing but the legitimate matter of a dictionary, or else it cannot include all the necessary terms. These considerations have been kept constantly in view in the preparation of BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY. Of the most esteemed law dictionaries heretofore in use, each will be found to contain a very considerable number of words not defined in any other. None is quite comprehensive in itself. Mr. Black has made it his aim to include all these terms and phrases here, together with some not elsewhere defined. The comprehensiveness of Black's Dictionary of Law is shown by the following comparative statement of the number of titles under the letter A in several law dictionaries in common use: The other letters are in about the same proportion. Prof. J. B. Thayer, Harvard University. Much the best law dictionary that I have seen. Prof. E. McClain, University of Iowa. I feel that I can highly commend the work. Prof. W. O. Harris, Louisville Law School. I find it the most comprehensive work yet published. Prof. N. Green, Cumberland University. It is up with the times, convenient in shape, and admirably suited for law students. Prof. Henry Wade Rogers, Northwestern University. It represents a vast amount of work, and has been done with great care and precision. Prof. Andrew J. Cobb, University of Georgia. After careful examination of Black's Law Dictionary, I have to say that in my opinion it is indispensable to the practitioner, and invaluable to the student. Prof. C. A. Graves, Washington & Lee University. It seems especially strong in the definitions of ancient words and phrases. The plan of the work, as outlined in the preface, is judicious, and has been consistently adhered to. 1 volume, with Denison's Index, $6, net, delivered. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. of Business Corporations. By Walter C. Clephane. A Book for the Young Lawyer. Its purpose is to show the inexperienced young lawyer entering practice exactly how to apply the principles he has learned, starting with the request of the client that his business be incorporated, how to go step by step through the successive stages essential to valid and successful organization. $2.50, DELIVERED. West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minn. |