Osborn's concise law dictionary

incl. ref.

Donado por Marcela Gatti

This is the first edition of this work which is not P. G. Osborn. I have not tried to improve the book. The fact that it went through five editions is a tribute to Osborn's choice of subject matter. His gift of pithy expression was admirably suited to a work of this caracter. I have contented myself with bringing the book up to date, nevertheless the amount of alteration involved in covering the changes of law in the past decade has been very much more than might be expected in a concise law dictionary. The work of the Law Commission and of the Criminal Law Revision Committee has resulted in changes which run right through this work. In addition, the modern tendency of trying to legislate in detail for everything results in Acts of unbelievable complexity.