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Black’s Law Dictionary 11th edition contains over 55000 legal terms including their earliest usage pronunciation guidance Latin maxims with index a bibliography of more than 1000 sources 6000+ quotations and more. For nearly 130 years Blacks 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 55000 law-related words and phrases recording their historical and present-day nuances WHATS NEW: 3500 terms are new to this edition including accountability anticipatory self-defense cyberforce 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. KEY FEATURES: Headwords are given their dates of earliest known use in English-language sources giving dictionary users a greater sense of historical context. Blacks Law Dictionary is the only legal dictionary to provide such data. The extensive bibliography lists the more than 1000 classics of legal literature that are briefly quoted throughout the dictionary to amplify the users understanding of legal terminology. Each of the more than 6000 quotations locates a critical and otherwise hard-to-find explanation of the terms under discussion.
- Binding type: Hardback
- Publisher: Thomson Reuters Legal
- Year published: 20190701
- Number of pages: 2075