Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A printed volume, used on an appeal to the English house of lords or privy council, containing the documents and other evidence presented in the interior court and referred to in the caes made by the parties for the appeal. Answering in some respects to the "paper-book" or "case" in American practice.