Black's Law Dictionary
Considered the most valuable reference tool available to the legal community, Black's Pocket Dictionary provides more than 13,000 clear, concise, and precise definitions. The essential companion dictionary to the Standard edition and as a stand-alone tool, Black's Pocket Dictionary also includes a dictionary guide and the complete U.S. Constitution. Black's is cited by judges and lawyers more than any other legal dictionary, comes recommended by law faculty, and is available in the pocket...
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For more than a century Black's has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today it is the most widely cited law book in the world. Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world s leading legal lexicographer, the 9th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 45,000 terms and includes: 2,000 more terms than the 8th Edition and 19,000 more than the 7th Edition including click fraud, Code Adam, collaborative law, ecoterrorism, environmental tort, friendly subpoena, happy-slapping, honor crime, secret detention, Schumer box, and super precedent. The date when selected terms were first used in English-language contexts, especially in judicial opinions. Heightened accuracy having more than 200 lawyers around the country reviewed terms. Definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms. Almost 3,000 quotations drawn from sources over five centuries. Alternate spellings or equivalent expressions for more than 5,300 terms and West Key Numbers.
Some of the new terms appearing for the first time: Amber Alert Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act antispamming law aspirin wars autonomy privacy Baumes Law Border and Transportation Security Directorate Bush doctrine chad Child Online Protection Act cyberpiracy cyberterrorism Digital Millennium Copyright Act digital signature e-contract e-money ethnic cleansing grandparent rights hot-potato rule inscrutable fault internally displaced person Lemon test mahr Miller trust Munchausen syndrome by proxy mutual-fund wrap account opt-out class Outer Space Treaty prophylactic cost repressed-memory syndrome reverse Jencks material Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act stealth juror Strategic National Stockpile terrorism insurance Vaughn index zero-tolerance policy
\ From Barnes & NobleAn essential for every lawyer's library, this venerable 1891 classic has been completely revised and updated by Bryan Garner, a lawyer with a lifetime passion for language, and includes almost 5,000 new definitions with quotations from important cases.\ \
