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Garner´s Dictionary of Legal Usage
Bryan A. Garner
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Description for Garner´s Dictionary of Legal Usage
Hardback. Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage Third Edition functions both as a style guide and as a law dictionary, guiding writers to distinguish between true terms of law and mere jargon and illustrating recommended forms of expression. Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: CBG; CBX; LR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 191 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1932.
This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other contemporary reference work can claim to do. Since the first edition, Bryan A. Garner has drawn on his unrivalled experience as a legal editor to refine his positions on legal usage and to add a wealth of new material. The new Third Edition remains indispensable by updating numerous entries, adding dozens of new entries and hundreds of new sections within existing entries; adding hundreds of new illustrative quotations from judicial opinions and leading law books by prominent legal ... Read more
This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage marshals and analyses the modern legal vocabulary more thoroughly than any other contemporary reference work can claim to do. Since the first edition, Bryan A. Garner has drawn on his unrivalled experience as a legal editor to refine his positions on legal usage and to add a wealth of new material. The new Third Edition remains indispensable by updating numerous entries, adding dozens of new entries and hundreds of new sections within existing entries; adding hundreds of new illustrative quotations from judicial opinions and leading law books by prominent legal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
1024
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1932g
Number of Pages
1032
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195384208
SKU
V9780195384208
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99-99
About Bryan A. Garner
Through his editorship of Black's Law Dictionary and authorship of The Winning Brief, The Elements of Legal Style, Legal Writing in Plain English (U Chicago Press) and The Redbook: A Manual on Legal Style (West Group), Bryan Garner has established himself as the authority on legal terminology and usage.
Reviews for Garner´s Dictionary of Legal Usage
There seems to be no linguistic topic he does not hold a vehement view on...The great strength of all the entries, whether controversial or not, is the compendious use of properly cited legal sources as examples.
Times Literary Supplement
Times Literary Supplement