Excerpt from The Law Glossary, 1856: Being a Selection of the Greek, Latin, Saxon, French, Norman, and Italian Sentences, Phrases, and Maxims Found in the Leading English and American Reports and Elementary Works; With Historical and Explanatory NotesThe author, in this undertaking, has endeavored, to the best of his ability, to meet the difficulty alluded to; and although, in so great a number as nearly five thousand translations, he may not have come up, in many instances, to the critical interpretation of the original, yet he hopes, from the labor he has for years bestowed on this work, and the assistance he has received, that not many errors have been made, affecting the sense or spirit of the passages.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.