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For more than a century, Black's has been the gold standard for the language of law. It is the most widely cited law book in the world. The 9th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 45,000 terms, including 2,000 more terms than the previous edition, such as click fraud, Code Adam, collaborative law, ecoterrorism, environmental tort, friendly subpoena, happy-slapping, honor crime, secret detention, Schumer box, and super precedent. It includes the date when selected terms were first used in English-language contexts, especially in judicial opinions. More than 200 lawyers reviewed terms for heightened accuracy. Definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms are provided, along with almost 3,000 quotations drawn from sources over five centuries and alternate spellings or equivalent expressions for more than 5,300 terms. West Key Numbers are also included.
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Black's Law Dictionary with Pronunciations, Various authors
- Language
- Released
- 1991
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- Title
- Black's Law Dictionary with Pronunciations
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Various authors
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 1136
- ISBN10
- 0314885366
- ISBN13
- 9780314885364
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Textbooks, Historical Themes, History, Language Textbooks & Dictionaries, Legal Topics, References & Manuals, Languages, Language Dictionaries, Dictionaries
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- For more than a century, Black's has been the gold standard for the language of law. It is the most widely cited law book in the world. The 9th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 45,000 terms, including 2,000 more terms than the previous edition, such as click fraud, Code Adam, collaborative law, ecoterrorism, environmental tort, friendly subpoena, happy-slapping, honor crime, secret detention, Schumer box, and super precedent. It includes the date when selected terms were first used in English-language contexts, especially in judicial opinions. More than 200 lawyers reviewed terms for heightened accuracy. Definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms are provided, along with almost 3,000 quotations drawn from sources over five centuries and alternate spellings or equivalent expressions for more than 5,300 terms. West Key Numbers are also included.