Black's Law Dictionary

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"This massive new edition of «Black's Law Dictionary» continues the undertaking begun by Henry Campell Black in 1891: to marshal legal terms to the fullest possible extent and to define them accurately. But more than that, it continues the effort begun with the seventh edition: to follow established lexicographic principles in selecting headwords and in phrasing definitions, to provide easy- to-follow pronunciations, and to raise the level of scholarship through serious research and careful reassessment. The terminology in several fields of law now finds greater coverage in the book than ever before. (...) For the first "Black's Law Dicctionary" contains citations that stay current: with a massive undertaking by the key-number classification team at West, I've added more than 10.000 citations to key numbers and to "Corpus Juris Secundum"- a significant aid to research".