Black's Law Dictionary (First Edition, 1891) Black's Law
Dictionary (First Edition, 1891). Henry Campbell Black, M.A..
(1891 and 1910) 2006. Every genealogist, regardless of their
time and place of interest, must have a copy of Black's Law
Dictionary in their library. Legal terminology differs from
place to place and time to time, and successful genealogical
research depends on the clear understanding of this changing
terminology.The publishers of Black's Law Dictionary are now
producing their eighth edition, and the newer editions have
added information on the developments in the law in recent
decades. But for genealogists the earlier editions retain their
value, since they have a higher proportion of information on
older law, especially the English feudal law, which is essential
for the interpretation of documents from the American colonial
period and from the England that the colonists left.While these
volumes contain just the sort of legal verbiage that one would
expect, there are many other reasons for c