Category: Books

  • Mozley and Whiteley´s Law Dictionary

    Mozley and Whiteley´s Law Dictionary in Europe Mozley and Whiteley´s Law Dictionary is basically a legal dictionary for students of law. In fact, the 13th edition has the only title of The Law Student´s Dictionary. Therefore, the last edition with the name Mozley and Whiteley´s Law Dictionary […]

  • George Ranken Askwith

    George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith in Europe George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith (1861-1942), English lawyer and civil servant, was born at Morley, Yorks, Feb. 17 1861, and was educated at Marlborough and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1886 (K.C. 1908), and […]

  • Black’s Law Dictionary

    Black’s Law  Dictionary in Europe The sustained popularity of this legal dictionary since its appearance (like Bouvier´s Law Dictionary in the XIX Century) it was attributed to the scholarship and learning of Henry Campbell Black, and to the plan adopted by him for the compilation of a legal […]

  • Legal Bibliography

    Legal Bibliography in Europe Some legal researchers emphasize classic bibliographies of the past, while others look at how the legal bibliography is used by the legal information specialists. According to Peairs (in Legal Bibliography: A Dual Problem), already in 1949 legal bibliography was a […]

  • List of Legal Dictionaries

    List of Legal Dictionaries in Europe Black’s Law Dictionary, by Henry Campbell Black Ÿ Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia (8th ed., 3rd rev.) by John Bouvier (1914) Historical Dictionary of International Tribunals (1994) Ÿ Quote It II: A Dictionary of […]

  • Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law

    Maxims of Law from Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law in Europe   A communi observantia non est recedendum. There should be no departure from common observance or usage. Co. Litt. 186. A l’impossible nul n’est tenu. No one is bound to do what is impossible. 1 Bouvier´s Institutes of […]

  • Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law

    Bouvier’s Dictionary of Law in Europe In 1839, John Bouvier wrote and published A Law Dictionary Adapted To The Constitution And Laws Of The United States Of America And Of The Several States Of The American Union With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law. Until middle of […]

  • List of Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice

    List of Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice in Europe Case concerning certain German interests in Polish Upper Silesia (merits). No. 7; Judgments. Nos. 1-24. Case concerning certain German interests in Polish Upper Silesia (question of jurisdiction). No. 6; […]