A Dictionary of Law by Oxford Dictionary
This best-selling dictionary is an authoritative and comprehensive source of jargon-free legal information. It contains over 4,200 entries that clearly define the major terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system. This is a reissue with new covers and essential updates to account for recent changes. Highlighted feature entries discuss key topics in detail, for example adoption law, the appeals system, statement of terms of employment, and terrorism acts, and there is a useful Writing and Citation Guide that specifically addresses problems and established conventions for writing legal essays and reports. Now providing more information than ever before, this edition features recommended web links for many entries, which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Law companion website. Described by leading university lecturers as 'the best law dictionary' and 'excellent for non-law students as well as law undergraduates', this classic dictionary is an invaluable source of legal reference for professionals, students, and anyone else needing succinct clarification of legal terms. Focusing primarily on English law, it also provides a one-stop source of information for any of the many countries that base their legal system on English law.
If legal language is a fog, this is a valuable flashlight Times Educational Supplement The entries are clearly drafted and succinctly written..Precision for the professional is combined with a layman's enlightenment. Times Literary Supplement It's like having your own lawyer on the bookshelf and is a handy aide for the professional and amateur alike. Northern Echo
Jonathan Law works as an editor at Market House Books, where he has contributed to numerous dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works, including The Cassell Companion to Cinema, A Dictionary of Business and Management, European Culture, The Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Phrase and Fable, and Who's Who in the Twentieth Century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199669868 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199669864 |
| Title | A Dictionary of Law |
| Author | Oxford Dictionary |
| Series | Oxford Paperback Reference |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2013-03-10 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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