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  • A Selection of Legal Maxims

    A Selection of Legal Maxims “A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classtfieli and Illustrated”is a legal treatise. By Herbert Broom, Barrister at Law, and, in the 6th Edition (1884), also by CHARLES CAGNEY and HERBERT F. MANISTY. LONDON: W. MAXWELL & SON, 8, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. The reader will find…

  • List of Legal Encyclopedias

    List of Legal encyclopedias United States Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.) American Jurisprudence: Am. Jur. Federal Procedure, Lawyer’s Edition Oxford Companion to American Law Encyclopedia of American Law Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice Encyclopedia of the American Constitution Encyclopedia of Women and Crime Encyclopedia of the Inter-American System Encyclopedia of the United…

  • Legal Abbreviations, Historical

    Legal Abbreviations, Historical information Introduction A shortened form of words obtained by the omission of one or more syllables from the middle or end of the words, according to the Bouvier’s Law Dictionary. As almost every word in the language may be abbreviated, the number may be made very large. The broadest rule which has…

  • 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.…

  • Law Dictionaries

    Law Dictionaries A Dictionary of Law Enforcement Oxford Dictionary of Law Hein Online , Dictionary of Jurisprudence Legal Latin Australian Law Dictionary (Oxford Reference Online) LexisNexis AU •Australian Legal Words and Phrases •Butterworths Encyclopaedic Australian Legal dictionary Merriam Webster Dictionary- with audio pronounciation for words Conclusion Notes See Also References and Further Reading About the…

  • Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms

    Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms The shortening of existing words is another mean of vocabulary expansion. As with many other military slang and colloquial expressions, many of the slang and colloquial abbreviations originated during war. There were several motives for introducing slang abbreviations but the main reason was to hide the real meaning and linguistic economy.…

  • Citation of legal blogs in law reviews

    The importance (and credibility) of law blogs was confirmed when the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States cited its first blog in January, 2005. See United States v. Booker, 125 S. Ct. 738, 775 n.4 (2005). An article in Slaw (“citing blogs in Law Journals ) points the idea that the “question still arises…

  • Legal blogosfera review this week

    Legal blogosfera review this week Legal History Blog tells about an essay on billboards and how the public and the court have judged billboards’ aesthetic qualities. Workplace Prof Blog tells about an article on “Reframing Women Employees’ Responses to the Harms of Sexual Harassment.” According to the abstract, an employee’s response to sexual harassment generally…

  • Common Topics

    Common Topics Arbitration Arms Control Bill of Exchange Cemeteries Church Church Properties Common Law Competition law Contracts Conventions Courts Criminal Procedure Customs Law Cybercrime Definitions Dictionaries Disarmament Elections Europe European Union Export Controls Export Law Exports Featured Foregin Policy Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy France GATT History Human Development Human rights Immunities Import Law Information Retrieval…

  • Black’s Law Dictionary

    Black’s Law Dictionary The sustained popularity of this Legal dictionary since its appearance (like Bouvier’s Law Dictionary in the XIX Century) it was attributed to the scholarship and Learning of Henry Campbell Black, and to the plan adopted by him for the compilation of a legal lexicon. Now the editor is Bryan Garner, a lexicographer.…

  • Maxims of Law

    Maxims of Law or Legal Maxims According to the Bouvier’s Dictionary, a Maxim is an established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant with reason. Maxims in law are somewhat like axioms in geometry. See 1 Commentaries on the Laws of England (by Sir Wllliam Blackstone). 68. They…

  • A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations

    A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations Author: Volger, Helmut, ed. Publication details: New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002. Review of “A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations” According to “Introduction to Research in International Law”(see Further Reading) this dictionary of international law is an English edition of the German “Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen”and provides…

  • Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law

    Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law This legal Encyclopedia offers chapters on legal topics, such as statutory interpretation or insurance, as well as chapters on a few countries. The Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law provides a very useful overview to legal research in civil law and commonwealth jurisdictions. The articles (based in areas of law and…

  • Glossary of technical Terms : Phrases and Maxims of the Common Law

    Glossary of technical Terms : Phrases and Maxims of the Common Law Author: Frederic Jesup Stimpson Published: Boston; Little, Brown & Company, 1881. Date of Publication: Boston, February 21, 1881. Jurisdiction: England Introduction The legal terms compiled in this glossary include those relating to civil and canon law, and provide precise definitions based on the…

  • Stimson’s Law Dictionary

    Stimson’s Law Dictionary “A concise law dictionary of words, phrases, and maxims : with an explanatory list of abbreviations used in Law books “(1911). The Authors were Stimson, Frederic Jesup, 1855-1943 and Voorhees, Harvey Cortlandt, b. 1867. FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON was PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION IN HARVARD and HARVEY CORTLANDT VOORHEES was lawyer in the…