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Bouvier's Law is an American Common Law dictionary. I am not sure if there is an earlier version than this.

What is interesting is that this version came out the same year as the famous Dred-Scott case, where it was stated that the terms "people" and the State "citizen" were equivalent (the artificial Sovereignty of the Monarchy having been transferred from the King of England to "The People" together after the American Revolutionary War. The people this share a sovereignty together. To me, the Dred-Scott case confirms what was never really defined in the Constitution, that the State Citizen is indeed on of "the people", and that Citizens, as natural persons as a group are indeed both sovereign, and subject to the law, all at the same time.

True Sovereignty must be found in the man [Chisholm v. Georgia], this being the class of lawmaker, and not themselves subject to legislation.

Also interesting is that the next (I believe) version came out in 1914, around the time of the Federal Reserve Act. Yet another version in 1934 right after Executive Order 6102 and House Joint Resolution 192 were passed (the removal of Gold/money from circulation).

The latter stages of Bouvier and it's editions seems to me to signify how the operational law on the land changed over time. The original Constitutional civilly legislated Common Law of the Land began to be replaced over time with admiralty maritime law of the incorporated federal corporation UNITED STATES of Washington DC.

The most interesting part of this dictionary I have found so far is the assertion that courts of record can be denied jurisdiction with express negative words, which I assume to be a negative averment. This only makes sense, given that men and women can be natural persons as a part of a jural society only by their consent [Chisholm v. Georgia]... a man or woman's subjection to any law being a hallmark of the post Revolutionary war Declaration of Independence.