Tayler, Thomas, fl. 1833-1843.
Tayler's Law Glossary : (American Law, 1819)
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The Law Glossary, 1819
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Thomas Tayler was a member of Clement's Inn, London, and a respected
solicitor, and when he wrote his dictionary, his colleagues expected it to be
authoritative. However, in spite of the fact that Tayler's dictionary had been
endorsed and recommended by two distinguished judges and several other
attorneys, it was instead found, in a lengthy review of the second edition in
The American Jurist and Law Magazine (1834, v. 12, pp. 248-270),
to abound in "barefaced ignorance and absurdity." The reviewers were
critical of the entire work, stating that Tayler has mistranslated and
misconceived wherever possible, and "shows sheer ignorance of all the law - the
common, civil, and French, as well as of the Latin and French languages." The
reviewers showed convincing evidence that Tayler cribbed almost all of his notes
and preface from Alexander Adam's Roman Antiquities, and suggested that
readers "may enjoy a considerable part of Mr. Adam's excellent work in Mr.
Tayler's pages." The review concluded that those who recommended the work,
including Chief Justice John Savage of the New York Supreme Court, should be
subjected to "some kind of trial."
Despite this scathing review, the dictionary was quite popular, exhausting
many editions and several reprints in the nineteenth century, with corrections
and revisions (for example, by the third edition, editors removed some of the
obvious plagiarism of Adam's work).
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