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Black's Law Dictionary: Legal Maxims 1891 Container ⚖️

Legal Maxims

In the first edition of this dictionary, published in 1891, Henry Campbell Black remarked that the book contained a complete collection of legal maxims, adding: “These have not been grouped in one body, but distributed in their proper alphabetical order through the book. This is believed to be the more convenient arrangement”. Although it might indeed have been more convenient for readers who knew the maxims they wanted to look up — as 19th-century readers might have been apt to — spreading Latin sentences throughout the book is decidedly inconvenient for most dictionary users today. We have therefore collected them here for ease of reference.