A law dictionary and glossary: containing full definitions of the principal terms of the common and civil law, together with translations and explanations of the various technical phrases in different languages, occuring in the ancient and modern reports, and standard treatises; embracing, also, all the principal common and civil law maxims. Compiled on the basis of Spelman's Glossary, and adapted to the jurisprudence of the United States; with copious illustrations, critical and historical / by Alenander M. Burrill.