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Black's law dictionary / Bryan A. Garner, editor in chief.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Paul, MN : Thomson Reuters, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Eleventh editionDescription: xxxiii, 2075 pages : map ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781539229759
  • 1539229750
  • 9781539229766
  • 1539229769
Other title:
  • Law dictionary
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Preface to the eleventh edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the seventh edition -- Guide to the dictionary -- List of abbreviations -- Dictionary -- Appendixes: Legal maxims -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States of America -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Members of the United States Supreme Court -- Federal circuits map -- British regnal years -- Bibliography of books cited.
Summary: For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.
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Not for Loan Not for Loan Main Library Reference 340.03 B631 Not for loan 33111011292154
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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. 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. Each of the more than 6,000 quotations locates a critical and otherwise hard-to-find explanation of the terms under discussion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 2053-2075)

Preface to the eleventh edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the seventh edition -- Guide to the dictionary -- List of abbreviations -- Dictionary -- Appendixes: Legal maxims -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Constitution of the United States of America -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Members of the United States Supreme Court -- Federal circuits map -- British regnal years -- Bibliography of books cited.

For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.

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