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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Originally, an enumeration, list, schedule, or table, setting forth numerous subjects in some systematic order, and so as to show charges, prices, or rates affixed to each item. Hence it has come to be used as the name of an act of legislation, or convention between states, containing the names of several kinds of merchandise, with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, as settled by authority.