Dictionaries & Terminology

This comprehensive workbook is designed to familiarize the user with legal terminology as it applies to substantive areas of law. Containing more than 750 key legal terms and defi… More

With double the length and coverage of the original, this new edition of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (DMLU) marshals and analyzes the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly… More

To the ordinary person, who hasn't spent three years grinding through law school, legalese gets its point across as clearly and effortlessly as a dose of ancient Greek. Right up th… More

The only dictionary of its kind, Random House Webster's American Sign Language Legal Dictionary is sure to become the definitive ASL reference for legal matters from crimina… More

This updated 6th edition of the Dictionary of Criminal Justice brings together, in one, easy-to-use guide, more than 3,600 definitions from the many disciplines that compose the fi… More

Good legal writing wins court cases. It its first edition, The Winning Brief proved that the key to writing well is understanding the judicial readership. Now, in a revised and upd… More

Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world’s leading legal lexicographer, Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th Edition is now better than ever! The new 8th Edition has more than… More

This up-to-date and authoritative dictionary has over 10,000 definitions of over 5,000 terms with phonetic pronunciations. Includes key words, phrases, major U.S. Supreme Court Cas… More

A quick-reference source for lawyers, law students, legal professionals, and the interested layperson, this book defines more than 3,000 legal terms in non-technical language, but … More

This deluxe edition has more than 43,000 definitions, plus almost 3,000 quotations. Alternative spellings or equivalent terms and expressions are provided for more than 5,300 terms… More

A highly portable condensed version of Oran's Dictionary of the Law, that contains all the core legal words common to introductory law and paralegal courses. It is also a good se… More

Case law evidence shows that mental health professionals (MHPS) have lost cases in court because they based their professional action on the wrong definition of legal or ethical te… More

Orans Dictionary of the Law is the clearest and easiest to use dictionary on the market. The only major law dictionary created for paralegals and law-related professionals, this co… More