The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary Defining Terms and Phrases of American..
1940 Third Edition of Shumaker & Longsdorf's Acclaimed Cyclopedic Law Dictionary Shumaker, Walter A. George Foster Longsdorf. The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary Defining Terms and Phrases of American Jurisprudence, of Ancient and Modern Common Law, International Law, Civil Law, The French and Spanish Law, and other Juridical Systems. With an Exhaustive Collection of Legal Maxims. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1940. Third Edition. Thick octavo (10" x 7"; 25.4 x 17.8cm). lv, 1188 pp. With an alphabetical thumb index. Original burgundy pebble-grained cloth, gilt stamped spine, blind frames to boards. Moderate shelfwear, with light wear and rubbing to spine and extremities. Previous owner's names, "Dorithen and Michael," to front free endpaper, front hinge cracked but secure, top edge with half inch gash to top margins of twelve pages, else internally clean. A good copy. $100. * A vital bridge in early 20th-century legal scholarship, balancing exhaustive multi-volume encyclopedias with simplistic glossaries. It explicitly retained a vast compendium of historical legal maxims alongside ancient civil, French, and Spanish terms that informed early American jurisprudence. This 1940 third edition is historically significant as it captures American law at a profound turning point: published just two years after the sweeping introduction of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1938), it charts the transitional lexicon between traditional common law and modern statutory authority.
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