Compilation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A literary production, composed of the works of others, and arranged in a methodical manner. When a compilation requires in its execution taste, learning, discrimination, and intellectual labor, it is an object of copyright: as, for example, Bacon's Abridgment.
Curtis, Copyright, 186.