Ballentine's Law Dictionary ranks with Black's Law Dictionary and Bouvier's Law Dictionary as one of the most important works on Legal terminology written in the modern era. The first edition of 1916 is 632 pages and was written six years prior to Black's second edition. James A. Ballentine was dean of San Francisco Law School. This dictionary has been scanned in high resolution from the original, and formatted for Apple devices with a digital table of contents that allows the reader to jump to any of the letter sections quickly.