Best Law Dictionaries & Terminology Books
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1. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition
Author: by Bryan A. Garner
Thomson Reuters
English
2110 pages
For nearly 130 years, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of the law. The greatly expanded 11th edition, with new material on every page, is at once the most practical, comprehensive, scholarly, and authoritative law dictionary ever published.
With clarity and rigor, it defines more than 55,000 law-related words and phrases, recording their historical and present-day nuances. This edition introduces 3,500 new terms, including accountability, anticipatory self-defense, cyber force, Islamic law, Jewish law, legal moralism, legal reasoning, moral equality, peacekeeping, remotely piloted warfare, right to rebel, and umbrella clause.
More than 900 Latin maxims have been added, newly translated, and carefully indexed for this edition, making Black’s Law Dictionary the most thorough and reliable source for these essential and often elusive items. Headwords are given their dates of earliest known use in English-language sources, giving dictionary users a greater sense of historical context.
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, Newest Edition, Trade Paperback
Author: by Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
English
634 pages
Recently revised and updated, this trade paperback provides a convenient, comprehensive guide to the language of law for everyone from the homeowner to the legal professional. Defines more than 10,000 legal words and phrases in common terminology. New and updated entries taken from recent events include buffer zone, cybersecurity, gun control law, and marriage.
Important laws including the Affordable Care Act and the Voting Rights Act and agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were updated to reflect recent Supreme Court decisions and new legislation. New entries include: benefit corporation, civil union, community supervision, right-to-die law, voter ID law, health care power of attorney, cyber insurance, e-discovery, and reverse redlining.
Special sections included on the judicial system, important legal cases, government agencies and landmark laws.
3. Black’s Law Dictionary, Deluxe 11th Edition
Author: by Bryan A. Garner
Thomson Reuters
English
2110 pages
For nearly 130 years, Black’s Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of the law. The greatly expanded 11th edition, with new material on every page, is at once the most practical, comprehensive, scholarly, and authoritative law dictionary ever published.
With clarity and rigor, it defines more than 55,000 law-related words and phrases, recording their historical and present-day nuances. This edition introduces 3,500 new terms, including accountability, anticipatory self-defense, cyber force, Islamic law, Jewish law, legal moralism, legal reasoning, moral equality, peacekeeping, remotely piloted warfare, right to rebel, and umbrella clause.
The deluxe edition also includes a premium faux leather cover and thumb-cuts for fast look-ups. More than 900 Latin maxims have been added, newly translated, and carefully indexed for this edition, making Black’s Law Dictionary the most thorough and reliable source for these essential and often elusive items.
Headwords are given their dates of earliest known use in English-language sources, giving dictionary user’s a greater sense of historical context. Black’s Law Dictionary is the only legal dictionary to provide such data. The extensive bibliography lists the more than 1,000 classics of legal literature that are briefly quoted throughout the dictionary to amplify the user s understanding of legal terminology.
4. The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts
Author: by Bryan A. Garner
0199378355
Oxford University Press
English
In its first two editions, The Winning Brief explained the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use tips, proving that the key to writing well is to understand the judicial readership. This third edition of Bryan A. Garner’s modern classic delivers the sameinvaluable guidelines with even more supporting evidence.
Covering everything from the rules for planning and organizing a brief to openers that can capture a judge’s attention from the first few words, these tips add up to the most compelling, orderly, and visually appealing brief that an advocatecan present.
In Garner’s view, good writing is good thinking put to paper. “Never write a sentence that you couldn’t easily speak,” he warns – and demonstrates how to do just that. Every tip begins with a set of quotable quotes from experts, followed by Garner’s masterly advice on building sound paragraphs,drafting crisp sentences, choosing the best words (“Strike pursuant to from your vocabulary.”), quoting authority, citing sources, and designing a document that looks as impressive as it reads.
5. Black’s Law Dictionary, Pocket, 5th Edition
Author: by Bryan A. Garner
Thomson Reuters
English
890 pages
Blacks Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition is the top-selling paperback law dictionary for good reason. With more than 19,000 definitions from the industry-standard Blacks Law Dictionary 10th, it is an essential reference tool for legal terms in a compact format. The terms that matter most, with clear and concise definitions, are included, from the legal dictionary that judges and lawyers cite more than any other.
Law students, journalists, lawyers, and anyone interested in knowing the precise meaning of legal terms find this a must-have.
6. Black’s Law Dictionary, Abridged, 10th Edition
Author: by Bryan A. Garner
0314642722
Thomson Reuters West
English
The most-cited legal dictionary in the world, Black’s Law Dictionary 10th Abridged contains more than 50,000 terms in an easy-to-use softbound format. Prepared by legal lexicographer Bryan A. Garner, the Abridged is a trusted authority for legal research. More than 7,500 new terms are found in the 10th Abridged, from “affluenza” to “zero-tolerance law.” The Abridged includes what matters most the terms and their definitions without the additional reference material found in the Standard 10th Edition, offering the user unparalleled value.
7. Black's Law Dictionary, 1st Edition
Author: by Henry C. Black
English
1266 pages
0963010603
Reprint of the rare first edition of the classic American law dictionary, now in its eleventh edition. Originally published: St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1891.X, 1253 pp. Contains definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern (including the principal terms of international, constitutional, and commercial law).
There is also a collection of legal maxims, as well as a bibliography of the principal law dictionaries in English and other languages to 1891.
8. Dictionary of Legal Terms: Definitions and Explanations for Non-Lawyers
Author: by Steven H. Gifis
Barrons Educational Series
English
656 pages
Barron’s Dictionary of Legal Terms includes over 2,500 terms in clear, easy-to-understand English and translates legalese for the layperson. This updated edition includes new terms to incorporate recent changes in laws and judicial interpretations. This pocket-sized guide is an ideal book for quick reference or to learn more about the law.
It includes:More than 2,500 legal termsJargon-free definitions and explanationsHundreds of examples to illustrate the definitionsThis compact guide cuts through the complexities and is ideal for consumers, business proprietors, legal beneficiaries, investors, property owners, litigants, and all others who have dealings with the law.
9. Legal Terminology (Quick Study: Law)
Author: by Inc. BarCharts
QuickStudy
English
6 pages
Not sure about the meaning of curtilage? Want to find out what pro hac vice entails? The perfect study aid for law students and the ideal quick reference for legal professionals, this up-to-date, comprehensive 3-panel (6-page) guide provides the most commonly used legal termscomplete with fluff-free definitionsin an easy-to-read A-to-Z format.
Including such need-to-know terms as, affidavit, defendant ,estoppel, juvenile, quid pro quo, res ipsa loquitur, zoning, and more, this guide proves beyond a reasonable doubt why QuickStudy is America’s #1 legal reference chart!
10. Master Legal Vocabulary & Terminology- Legal Vocabulary In Use: Contracts, Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs + 425 Expert Legal Documents & Templates in English!
Author: by Marc Roche
English
168 pages
1791849598
“Master Legal Vocabulary & Terminology: Legal Vocabulary In Use: Contracts, Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs + 425 Downloadable Expert Legal Documents & Templates in English!”, provides a structured framework under which law students, lawyers and other law professionals can significantly improve their knowledge of legal vocabulary and terminology.
You will be taken through the main vocabulary and grammar structures in commercial contracts and allowed to practise them through highly targeted vocabulary and grammar activities, which aim to develop, not only your lexical and grammatical skills, but also your confidence and overall competence within international legal settings.
Towards the end of the book you will find a short glossary with all the main terms of contract law and legal vocabulary in English, together with a phrasal verb mini-dictionary which includes definitions and exercises to perfect your mastery of this area of English.
Finally, the last section of this book, contains an amazing selection of 425 legal templates to guide you through drafting contracts, letters, affidavits and many many other documents. It will be an invaluable resource for your studies and career in the legal arena.
11. Black's Law Dictionary: Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern, 5th Edition
Author: by Henry Campbell Black
West Pub. Co
English
1511 pages
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12. The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
Author: by Barbara G. Walker
HarperOne
English
576 pages
This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features: Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object 21 different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities’ Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts, Nature, Birds, Plants, Minerals, Stones and Shells, and more Introductory essays for each section 753 entries and 636 illustrations Alphabetical index for easy referenceThree-Rayed Sun The sun suspended in heaven by three powers, perhaps the Triple Goddess who gave birth to it (see Three-Way Motifs).
Corn Dolly An embodiment of the harvest to be set in the center of the harvest dance, or fed to the cattle to `make them thrive year round’ (see Secular-Sacred Objects). Tongue In Asia, the extended tongue was a sign of life-force as the tongue between the lips imitated the sacred lingam-yoni: male within female genital.
Sticking out the tongue is still a polite sign of greeting in northern India and Tibet (see Body Parts). Cosmic Egg In ancient times the primeval universe-or the Great Mother-took the form of an egg. It carried all numbers and letters within an ellipse, to show that everything is contained within one form at the beginning (see Round and Oval Motifs).
13. Criminal Law: A Desk Reference
Author: by Paul Bergman J.D.
NOLO
English
456 pages
Understand criminal law! Learn about crimes, the system, and your rights Whether you’re studying law, work in law enforcement, or simply want to know more about the criminal justice system, this book will get you up to speed. Criminal Law: A Desk Reference covers the basic to the complex in alphabetical order.
Whether it’s alibi or writ of habeas corpus, the book makes it easy to find and understand what you’re looking for. With this book you’ll be able to: learn the law with real-life examples understand procedures from arraignment through appeals see defenses to common crimes, and make sense of controversies regarding police use of force.
The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest criminal law trends and U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
14. Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
Author: by Bryan Garner
OUP USA
English
1032 pages
This new edition of Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other contemporary reference work can claim to do. Since the first edition, Bryan A. Garner has drawn on his unrivalled experience as a legal editor to refine his positions on legal usage and to add a wealth of new material.
The new Third Edition remains indispensable by updating numerous entries, adding dozens of new entries and hundreds of new sections within existing entries; adding hundreds of new illustrative quotations from judicial opinions and leading law books by prominent legal commentators; revising the selected bibliography; and expanding and updating cross-references to guide readers quickly and easily.
A new preface introduces the reader to this edition and discusses content that has been newly incorporated. Influential writers and editors rely on DMLU daily. It is an essential resource for practising lawyers, scholars of the law, and libraries of all sizes and types.
