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Usage
This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Henry Campbell Black's work A Dictionary of Law (1st edition, 1891), commonly known as Black's Law Dictionary. It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.
Parameters
The template takes the following parameters:
|1=or|entry=– mandatory: the entry or headword quoted from, which will be displayed in uppercase letters as it appears in the work. To format the entry differently using wikitext, specify|noformat=1or|noformat=yes.|2=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory in some cases: the page or range of pages quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=110–111. - You must also use
|pageref=to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
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|column=or|columns=– the column number(s) quoted from in Arabic numerals, either|column=1or|column=2. If quoting from both columns, either omit this parameter or separate the column numbers with an en dash, like this:|columns=1–2.|3=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Black Law Dictionary|entry=PIX|page=899|passage=The ascertaining whether coin is of the proper standard is in England called "'''pixing'''" it; and there are occasions on which resort is had for this purpose to an ancient mode of inquisition called the "trial of the pix," before a jury of members of the Goldsmiths' Company.}}; or{{RQ:Black Law Dictionary|PIX|899|The ascertaining whether coin is of the proper standard is in England called "'''pixing'''" it; and there are occasions on which resort is had for this purpose to an ancient mode of inquisition called the "trial of the pix," before a jury of members of the Goldsmiths' Company.}}
- Result:
- 1891, Henry Campbell Black, “PIX”, in A Dictionary of Law , St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 899:
- The ascertaining whether coin is of the proper standard is in England called "pixing" it; and there are occasions on which resort is had for this purpose to an ancient mode of inquisition called the "trial of the pix," before a jury of members of the Goldsmiths' Company.
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