Lawson, John Davison, 1852-1921.
Lawson's Concordance of Words and Phrases Construed in the Judicial Reports : American Law
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A Concordance of Words and Phrases Construed in the Judicial Reports, 1883 |
John Davison Lawson was a professor and dean of the University of Missouri's law school. He was best known "for his efforts to reform criminal procedure [and] for his treatises on contracts, bailment, and his collection of state trials" (George Grossman, "Early American Legal Lexicographers," in Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, 2003).
Lawson's Concordance does not itself provide definitions, but instead directs the reader to judicial decisions that provide the definitions. It includes "both common and legal terms". A second edition (1903) added statutory terms.
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