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  • Legal Lexicography

    Legal Lexicography or Jurilexicography Legal lexicography or jurilexicography is the most neglected aspect of the discipline of jurilinguistics, despite its great relevance for translators, academics and comparative lawyers. This important work on the connections between legal vocabulary and legal culture is a welcome addition to the literature in the growing field of “jurilingistics” , a…

  • Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

    A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage Note: Also called the Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage and the Garner’s Modern English Usage, depending on the editions. Seeral editions. New York: Oxford University Press. Author: Bryan A. Garner. The third edition: 2011. Pp. xxx + 991. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538420-8. For the 4th edition: Garner’s Modern English Usage,…

  • Authors of Legal Dictionaries

    Authors of Law Dictionaries Albericus de Rosate, 1290-1360: Albericus’s Dictionarium Area: (Roman/Canon Law, 1581) Albericus was “born in Rosciate, near Bergamo, around 1290. He studied in Padua under Oldradus da Ponte and Riccardus Malumbra. He studied also under Ranieri di Forlì and received advice and help from Bartolo da Sassoferrato. In the second decade of…

  • Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms

    Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms (DWR) “The legal dictionary is a mighty tree, the trunk of which stands firmly on the legal-historical earth, but underneath the border its roots reach far into the neighbouring earth, to draw nourishment there; its branches, however, also spread far over the neighbouring fences, and it thus provides the…

  • Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms

    Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms (DWR) “The legal dictionary is a mighty tree, the trunk of which stands firmly on the legal-historical earth, but underneath the border its roots reach far into the neighbouring earth, to draw nourishment there; its branches, however, also spread far over the neighbouring fences, and it thus provides the…

  • Legal Translation

    Legal Translation “The specific problems of translating legal terminology are caused by the system-specificity inherent in legal language….One should not translate from a legal language into the ordinary words of the target language,but into the legal terminology of the target language…Through comparative law, the translator of legal terminology needs to find an equivalent in the…

  • Legal Dictionary

    Legal Dictionary “When [legal professionals] look up a word in a dictionary and they often do they are as likely as not to select a poor dictionary.” – Max Radin (“A Juster Justice, a More Lawful Law,” ) What Is a Legal Dictionary? A legal dictionary provides the legal definition of a word or term.…

  • Dictionarium Iuris tam Civilis, quam Canonici

    Dictionarium Iuris tam Civilis, quam Canonici Details of the Dictionarium Iuris tam Civilis, quam Canonici Publisher: Venice: (Italy) [Societas Aquilae se Renovantes] Year of Publication: 1581 About the Author: Albericus de Rosate (c. 1290-1354) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “Albericus (or Alberico) was born in Rosate…

  • Dictionarium Iuris tam Civilis, quam Canonici

    Dictionarium Iuris tam Civilis, quam Canonici Details of the Dictionarium Iuris tam Civilis, quam Canonici Publisher: Venice: (Italy) [Societas Aquilae se Renovantes] Year of Publication: 1581 About the Author: Albericus de Rosate (c. 1290-1354) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “Albericus (or Alberico) was born in Rosate…

  • Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le Commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du Monde

    Dictionnaire universel de commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du monde About the Author: Jacques Savary des Bruslons (1657-1716) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “Jacques Savary des Bruslons descended from a noble family of merchants. Title page,…

  • Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le Commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du Monde

    Dictionnaire universel de commerce: contenant tout ce qui concerne le commerce qui se fait dans les quatre parties du monde About the Author: Jacques Savary des Bruslons (1657-1716) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “Jacques Savary des Bruslons descended from a noble family of merchants. Title page,…

  • Glossaire du Droit Francais: contenant l’explication des mots difficiles qui se trouvent dans les ordonnances de nos Roys

    Glossaire du Droit Francais: contenant l’explication des mots difficiles qui se trouvent dans les ordonnances de nos Roys, dans les coustumes du Royaume, dans les anciens arrests et les anciens Titres About the Author: François Ragueau (d. 1605) In the words of the Tarlton Law Library (University of Texas School of Law): “François Ragueau was…

  • De Verborum Significatione

    De Verborum Significatione Details of De Verborum Significatione: the exposition of the termes and difficill wordes, conteined in the foure buikes of Regiam Majestatem, and others, in the actes of Parliament, infeftments, and used in practicque of this realme, with diverse rules, and commoun places, or principalles of the lawes Publisher London : Printed by…

  • Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary

    Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary The last 17th century edition of a significant contribution to English legal lexicography, superseding Rastell’s effort and praised by Holdsworth and Cowley, who term it, respectively, “more elaborate” than its predecessors and “scholarly”. Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else especially clean and well-preserved; the Taussig copy. Printed for…

  • Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary

    Nomo-Lexicon: a Law Dictionary The last 17th century edition of a significant contribution to English legal lexicography, superseding Rastell’s effort and praised by Holdsworth and Cowley, who term it, respectively, “more elaborate” than its predecessors and “scholarly”. Contemporary calf, crimson morocco label, gilt, lightly rubbed, else especially clean and well-preserved; the Taussig copy. Printed for…