Not just for lawyers, these illuminating histories of popular law-related expressions will delight anyone fascinated by words, by history, or by law and law enforcement Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, the third degree. This insightful and entertaining book reveals the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions that come from sources as diverse as Shakespeare, vaudeville, and Dr. Seuss. Separate entries for each expression follow no prescribed formula but instead focus on the most interesting, enlightening, and surprising aspects of the words and their evolution. Popular myths and misunderstandings are explored and exploded, and the entries are augmented with historical images and humorous sidebars.
Lively and unexpected, Lawtalk will draw a diverse array of readers with its abundance of linguistic, legal, historical, and cultural information. Those readers should be forewarned: upon finishing one entry, there is an irresistible temptation to turn to another, and yet another . . .

Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Thornburg, Elizabeth G.

Galanter, Marc

Shapiro, Fred R.

Clapp, James E.

Yale University Press

Compact and comprehensive, the Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker is sure to enhance the professional skills necessary for lawyers, legal secretaries, paralegals, law and prelaw students, educators and anyone else who produces documents with legal content. This invaluable reference includes: Terms for all subfields of law -- from maritime law and legal philosophy to criminal procedure and environmental law Well-known legal terms -- indict, hereinafter and judgment Distinctions between confusingly similar terms: endorse and indorse, parol and parole Law French terms -- cestui que trust and prochein ami Latin legal terms -- habeas corpus and particeps criminis Terms for English common law of property: curtesy and enfeoffment Terms from new fields of law: cyberfraud

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A full-length legal dictionary with over 8,500 terms, including new words not covered in other legal dictionaries. Random House Webster's Dictionary of the Law is an up-to-date and thorough reference for students, legal professionals, and anyone who wants to understand the latest developments in Congress and the courts. The book covers an essential legal vocabulary, from historical terms in Latin and Law French to the newest terms such as cyberfraud, domestic partnership, identity theft, and racial profiling, making this book the most up-to-date legal reference available. Clear usage notes, historical notes, pronunciation notes, and helpful tips about "false friends" (words with legal meanings different from standard meanings), as well as clearly marked cross-referencing between related words, make the book easy to use. Includes new terms not found in other legal dictionaries, but commonly encountered in reporting on legal issues. Helpful notes at important entries offer added value

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Random House Webster's Pocket Legal Dictionary goes beyond goes beyond surface definitions of legal terms, enabling the user to come away with some grasp of the current scope and significance of myriad legal concepts. This is achieved through: definitions that include enough detail to avoid being simplistic examples of sentences and phrases showing how a term is used subentries that flesh out the meaning of the main entry term histroical information, summaries of recent cases or other commentary division of certain items into separate entries to avoid confusion between unrelated easily conflated meanings copious cross-references to related or contrasting terms that help to place an entry in context and clarify its scope an appendix summarizing all of the amendments to the United States Constitution, which are the source of so many of the most fundamental principles in American law

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Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker

Random House Webster's Dictionary of the Law

Random House Webster's Pocket Legal Dictionary