Usually means: Clear, formal, traditional legal principles.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word black letter:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. black letter: Merriam-Webster
  2. black letter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. black letter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. black letter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. black letter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Black-letter, black-letter, black letter: Wordnik
  7. black-letter, black letter: Wiktionary
  8. black letter: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Black-letter, Black letter, black-letter, black letter: Dictionary.com
  10. Black-letter, Black letter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Black-letter, Black letter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. black-letter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Black letter: Rhymezone
  14. Black-letter, Black letter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. Black Letter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. black-letter, black letter: FreeDictionary.org
  17. black letter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Black-letter, black letter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. black letter: Legal dictionary
  3. black letter: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Black-letter, black letter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. black letter: Medical dictionary

(Note: See black_letters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (black letter)

noun:  (calligraphy) A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.
noun:  (typography) A Northern European style of type based on the script, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
noun:  Text set in black-letter type.
noun:  (law) The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.

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