Black's Law Dictionary 7th Edition Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: West Publishing Company

Black's Law Dictionary, Standard Ninth Edition (Black's Law Dictionary (Standard Edition)). For more than a century Black's has been the gold standard for the language of law. According to Black's Law Dictionary (you know it's serious when I quote a legal dictionary!), subrogation is defined as “the principle (Black's Law Dictionary, Abridged 7th ed., 2000). The in forma pauperis doctrine originated in British legislation, A Means to Help and Speed Poor Persons in their Suits (UK) (1495) Henry VII c 12. Yet, when tasked with defining this term of art, Chief Justice Rehnquist instead relied on the 7th Edition of Black's Law Dictionary, which was published decades after the statutes at issue were enacted--1999. 43) observes that “to defraud another is not only to deprive or withhold from him that .. €in forma pauperis”).” (at para 33). (Black's Law Dictionary, 7th ed. Kerr on the Law of Fraud and Mistake, 7th ed. With a foreword by Representative John Conyers, Jr. His strenght has been traditionally the concise way (the 7th edition had 390 pages while the 6th Revised edition had 403 pages) in which the law is summarised and presented over a wide fiel. In subsequent editions of Black's Law Dictionary, the definitions have become less eloquent, though the meaning is unchanged.