Black's Law Dictionary 9e Standard

Black's Law Dictionary 9e Standard

By Bryan A Garner

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$91.00 RRP

Date: 05/06/2009

Code: 9780314199492

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For more than a century, Black’s has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today it’s the most widely cited law book in the world. Edited by the world’s leading legal lexicographer, the ninth edition is much more than one of the most authoritative, comprehensive legal dictionaries every published. It contains more than 45,000 terms and includes:
 
  • 2,000 new terms 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 an English-language context, especially in judicial opinions.
  • Heightened accuracy with more than 200 lawyers around the USA reviewing 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.
  • West Key Numbers.
 
Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th Edition is now available as an app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, available from iTunes.

The Deluxe version of Black's has an appealing synthetic leather-bound appearance, with letter-indexed sections. A popular presentation gift for graduating students.
 
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