Black's Law Dictionary: Deluxe Ninth Edition (Hardcover): by BRYAN A. GARNER
Price: N20000
Product Code: 1287592887
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Number of Pages: 1920
Size: 10.2 x 7.7 x 3.1 inch
Weight: 3.0845 g
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: West
Edition: Current (2009)
ISBN: 0314199492
ISSN: 9780314199508
Availability: To be delivered within 3 working days after payment date
Summary: Product Description
For more than a century Black's has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today it is the most widely cited law book in the world. Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world's leading legal lexicographer, the 9th Edition is the most authoritative, comprehensive law dictionary ever published. It contains more than 45,000 terms and includes: 2,000 more terms than the 8th Edition and 19,000 more than the 7th Edition including click fraud, Code Adam, collaborative law, ecoterrorism, environmental tort, friendly subpoena, happy-slapping, honor crime, secret detention, Schumer box, and super precedent. Includes the date when selected terms were first used in English-language contexts, especially in judicial opinions. Heightened accuracy: more than 200 lawyers around the country reviewed terms. Definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms. Almost 3,000 quotations drawn from sources over five centuries. Alternate spellings or equivalent expressions for more than 5,300 terms. West Key Numbers.
About the Author
Acknowledged by linguists and lawyers alike as THE authority in legal language and usage, his influence is both far-reaching and profound. Mr. Garner has has a hand in editing the most important legal references produced in the last decade, as well as in training lawyers and judges on sharpening and clarifying their own legal writing. In short, no one better bridges the worlds of law and language--nor is better suited to take on the classic work and make it better. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.