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The First Part of this book consists of a course in Latin, written by E. Hilton Jackson of the American Bar, in which legal maxims and phrases are used as a basis of instruction. It has attained a wide circulation in the Law Schools of America. It is not designed to give a complete course in the Latin Language, and is intended chiefly to benefit law students and some of the younger members of the profesion, who have not a working knowledge of Latin, by making them familiar with the fundamental principles of the language, while at the same time employing as material instruction those maxims and phrases met with daily in practice and in the leading text-books.
The maxims and phrases thus utilized comprise three hundred and eightly-five in all, in selecting which, their importance in a legal aspect has been constantly borne in mind.
These maxims have been conveniently divided into thirty-two lessons, conducting the student by a gradual and easy process from the more elementary principles of Etymology to some of the more involved constructions of Syntax.
The lessons contain references, so far as may be found serviceable to a correct translation, to the rules and principles of Etymology and Syntax, collated in a single part of this book. More of these rules and principles have been introduced than will be found indispensable to an intelligent study of the lessons, thus making the course as expansive as the inclination of the student or the discretion of the instructor may suggest.
The Second Part of the book has been extensively revised and now contains a collection of over eleven hundred Latin Maxims, accompanied by an English translation. To all the more important maxims is added a short annotation, explanatory or illustrative of their legal aspect. For the most part these notes are abridged from Broom`s Legal Maxims, to which useful work the reader is referred for an exhaustive treatment of the maxims. To make the book more useful for purposes of reference, cross-references are given to related maxims, and a short Subject-Index is appended at the end of the volume.
The Third Part of the book consists of a Vocabulary of all the Latin words in Part II, together with a number of other Law-Latin words. It is hoped that this is full enough to enable the practitioner or student to translate most Latin phrases he may meet with in the Reports or other law books.ISBN : 9788175340534
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Pages : 295
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