Legal Terminology And Usage

Author : Ted H. Gordon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 149096973X

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Legal Terminology and Usage by Ted H. Gordon Pdf

If learning legal terminology were as simple as memorizing words, all you would need is a dictionary. But, merely memorizing definitions takes inordinate time, hard work, and in the end, still teaches you little about comprehending and retaining this new language. If you understand the nature of the legal terms and how they equate to ordinary legal situations, you will learn the terminology in a faster and more engaging way, and most importantly retain that knowledge far longer. Such learning requires the following strategies: charts comparing words whenever two terms have confusing similarities, organizing words under common legal concepts, and including interesting supplementary material (such as how attorneys evaluate an automobile case to determine how much it is worth, or who gets to keep the wedding ring if the marriage is called off). Cumulatively these learning strategies make legal terminology come alive. The purpose of learning legal terms is not for you to memorize the words for a test and forget them two days later. Rather, it is the ability to study the words in proper context so that you have a deep and sustainable understanding of the terms five years later. The goal of this book is to make learning more obtainable, and to create a platform for long-term recall for court reporters, paralegals, and anyone who wishes to understand legal terminology. As B. M. Dickey, Chair of Court Reporting for one of the Community Colleges said: "Infrequently you run across a truly superior textbook, that makes the teacher's job much easier, and is so naturally suited to the students and their needs, that you can't wait to tell others about your find. Legal Terminology and Theory for Court Reporters and Paralegals by Ted H. Gordon is just such a book. It is well written, comprehensive, logically organized, and extremely well received by students."

Author : Robert J. Glidewell
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781454861584

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Legal Terminology by Robert J. Glidewell Pdf

Legal Terminology offers clear definitions, examples, and summaries. A wealth of engaging exercises reinforce learning and relate new terms and concepts to real life — making it ideal for any introductory course.

Author : BarCharts, Inc.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1423205413

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Legal Terminology by BarCharts, Inc. Pdf

Not sure about the meaning of curtilage? Want to find out what pro hac vice entails? The perfect study aid for law students and the ideal quick reference for legal professionals, this up-to-date, comprehensive 3-panel (6-page) guide provides the most commonly used legal termscomplete with fluff-free definitionsin an easy-to-read A-to-Z format. Including such need-to-know terms as, affidavit, defendant, estoppel, juvenile, quid pro quo, res ipsa loquitur, zoning, and more, this guide proves beyond a reasonable doubt why QuickStudy is Americas #1 legal reference chart!

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195142365

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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage by Bryan A. Garner Pdf

A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.

Author : Gordon W. Brown
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060967887

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Legal Terminology by Gordon W. Brown Pdf

Structured into short, easily digested chapters; clear, concise explanations of the law; and easy-to-understand definitions, this book introduces over 1,375 legal terms. Written in a lively, nonthreatening style, this book emphasizes an understanding of legal terminology through a study of the law by presenting legal terms within the context of laws in which they are used. It provides a number of aids for the reader, such as a Glossary of Latin Terms and Phrases (with pronunciation) inside the front and back covers as well as sample legal forms, legal documents, maps, and cartoons. The third edition of Legal Terminology has been revised to include expanded and improved coverage, adding more than 225 legal terms since the previous edition. A new feature, Constitutionally Wise, highlights commonly used terms relating to the U.S. Constitution. It now also includes a Glossary of Legal Terms. An essential reference book for any reader who needs a greater understanding of current legal terminology and its usage.

Author : Marc Roche
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1791849598

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Master Legal Vocabulary & Terminology- Legal Vocabulary in Use: Contracts, Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs + 425 Expert Legal Documents & Templates in Eng by Marc Roche Pdf

"Master Legal Vocabulary & Terminology: Legal Vocabulary In Use: Contracts, Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs + 425 Downloadable Expert Legal Documents & Templates in English!", provides a structured framework under which law students, lawyers and other law professionals can significantly improve their knowledge of legal vocabulary and terminology. You will be taken through the main vocabulary and grammar structures in commercial contracts and allowed to practise them through highly targeted vocabulary and grammar activities, which aim to develop, not only your lexical and grammatical skills, but also your confidence and overall competence within international legal settings. Towards the end of the book you will find a short glossary with all the main terms of contract law and legal vocabulary in English, together with a phrasal verb mini-dictionary which includes definitions and exercises to perfect your mastery of this area of English. Finally, the last section of this book, contains an amazing selection of 425 legal templates to guide you through drafting contracts, letters, affidavits and many many other documents. It will be an invaluable resource for your studies and career in the legal arena.

Author : Bryan A. Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1023 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195384208

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Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage by Bryan A. Garner Pdf

A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.

Author : Geoffrey Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1702471810

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Legal Terms Dictionary by Geoffrey Lawrence Pdf

Hurry up and get YOUR book NOW❗ Welcome to the most complete and efficient Legal Vocabulary For Students And Legal Professionals! Do you want to improve your knowledge of legal terminology and do you want to understand how to use these terms correctly? As a professional lawyer or a law student, it is very important to understand legal terminology which is used in many legal documents. This book is ideal for you and it will set you in the right path to improving your legal writing skills and helping you build your knowledge of legal terminology. This book is intended primarily for non-native English language speakers either studying law or working in some capacity in the field of law. It introduces students to key vocabulary, concepts, collocations and prepositions in some of the most important areas of law. It can also be a good introduction to the world of law for those with no legal background whatsoever (whether native or non-native English speakers). Some of the key areas of law covered include: Criminals, Contracts; Business and Company; Property (both Intellectual and Real Estate); Legal Procedure (Civil and Criminal) and Litigation, among others. Who this book is for: This book is designed for law students, professional lawyers, business students and professional who wants to improve their knowledge of legal terminology. Happy learning! What students are saying: "The book has been organised accurately and fantastically, it was great job. The book will improve your legal knowledge as well, which was wonderful. Thanks a lot." "This book is very interesting, informative and helped me to learn many right words for improving my legal understanding!!! Thank you very much!!!" "It's a wonderful book and well done. There are a lot of new legal terms which I didn't know. It's a pleasure taking this book. Thanks a bunch." "I am pleasantly surprised by the book, it is a really easy and simple way to learn." "It is a very informative and interesting book. I highly recommend it for everyone who wants to learn more about legal terms and phrases." Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my book. I know you're going to absolutely love it, and I can't wait to share my knowledge and experience with you on the inside! Why wait any longer? Don't delay any more seconds, scroll back up, click the "BUY NOW WITH 1-CLICK" button NOW and start mastering 1000+ Essential Legal Terms And Phrases Explained With Examples TODAY! Every hour you delay is costing you money ... Tags: legal terminology and phrases, legal vocabulary, law vocabulary, legal words you should know, legal terms, legal dictionary, legal words, legal terms and meanings, lawyer terms, legal language, common legal terms, legal terms for dummies, legal terminology for dummies, legal terms used in court, dictionary of legal terms, legal phrases, legal documents, legal education, legal english dictionary, law dictionary, legal kindle books, law books for students, legal terms dictionary, legal documents, legal terms in court, lawyer terminology, terms used in law, basic legal terminology, basic legal terms, dictionary of law, legal english dictionary, words used in law

Author : Steven H. Gifis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781438067964

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Dictionary of Legal Terms by Steven H. Gifis Pdf

Updated to include new terms and to incorporate recent changes in laws and judicial interpretations, this handy dictionary: Contains over 2500 legal terms defined in clear, easy to understand English Translates “legalese” for the layperson Includes hundreds of examples to illustrate the definitions Is an ideal book for quick reference or to learn more about the law: Non-lawyers will appreciate the way this book cuts through the complexities of legal jargon and presents definitions and explanations that are easily understood and referenced. The terms are arranged alphabetically and given with definitions and explanations for consumers, business proprietors, legal beneficiaries, investors, property owners, litigants, and all others who have dealings with the law. Find definitions on everything from Abandonment and Abatable Nuisance, all the way through to Zoning.

Author : Johnny CHUONG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520358768

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Legal Vocabulary in Use by Johnny CHUONG Pdf

Legal Vocabulary In Use: Master 600+ Essential Legal Terms And Phrases Explained In 10 Minutes A Day! There's no need to spend hours trying to memorize long lists of legal terms and phrases. LIMITED TIME OFFER ONLY $2.99 As the author of the book, I promise this book will be an invaluable source of legal reference for professionals, international lawyers, law students, business professionals and anyone else who want to improve their use of legal terminology and succinct clarification of legal terms. This book contains over 600 Essential Legal Terms and Phrases which provides a comprehensive and highly practical approach in legal contexts. All legal terms and phrases are arranged alphabetically, well written and explained clearly in plain English. Here is a preview of exactly what you will learn: - What is law? - Types of Law - Types of People In Law - Common Essential Legal Phrases and Terms - Section A - Section B - Section C - Section D - Section E - Section F - Section G - Section H - Section I - Section K - Section L - Section M - Section N - Section O - Section P - Section Q - Section R - Section S - Section T - Section U - Section V - Section W - And Much, Much More! .................................. Don't delay any more seconds, scroll back up, DOWNLOAD your copy TODAY for only $2.99 and start the journey of mastering 600+ essential legal terms and phrases explained in 10 minutes a day tomorrow!

Author : David Mellinkoff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781606088234

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Mellinkoff's Dictionary of American Legal Usage by David Mellinkoff Pdf

This is a dictionary of the language of the law as used in America today. Most of this dictionary is written in ordinary English. Most of the words that lawyers use in writing and talking about the law are the ordinary words that fill the dictionaries of the English language. They have a place in this dictionary when the law gives them a specialized sense; or to emphasize that there is none. Too often an apparent change in sense results not from the law but from bad grammar or redundancy; or from an unsorted host of possible meanings jumbled together and left to the vagaries of interpretation. At the other extreme, individual cases, each walled in by its own distinctive facts and law, may give an immaculately narrowed sense, but neither generalized definition nor standards for the gradation of sense that is the essence of clear usage. A small number of citations to cases of special relevance to word usage are included in this dictionary. The citation count does not measure the indebtedness of this dictionary to old and current sources of American legal usage. The definitions and examples of usage in this dictionary have roots in the law reports of thousands of litigated cases; in law writings formal and informal, profound and trivial; in the talk of lawyers and judges in court and out--the formal and the informal--colloquial and slangy, talk that is precise and talk that is mush; in a long line of dictionaries past and present--law dictionaries, and dictionaries of English and its usage. Drawing from all those sources, the definitions and examples are shaped by more than a half-century of personal immersion in the oral and written language of the law, as law student, practicing lawyer, professor, and writer. And something has been added. This dictionary is designed to sort out the words used in the law, and to identify the different senses in which each is used, and can be used. With cross-reference, it tells how words are related to each other and separated for each other, so that discrimination and choice of usage are possible. Words are grouped together as identical, similar, disparate, departing from or paralleling the usages of ordinary English. Where usage is not uniform, the dictionary comments on what is better, best, and worst. The dictionary concentrates on general legal usage for a profession practicing in the American common law tradition . . . The dictionary does not detail the multitude of other jurisdictional variations, but calls attention to the fact of variation. Although the distinction is often difficult to make, this is a word dictionary, not a short legal encyclopedia. Technicalities in general legal usage are included, but not the intricacies of learning in specialized fields of the law. There is no standard legal pronunciation. Pronunciation is included here when it is unusual, exotic, controversial, or needed to prevent confusion. Pronunciation is rendered in simplified phonetics. American law dictionaries go back to 1839. This one is new and different. --David Mellinkoff, from the Preface

Author : Gordon W. Brown
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063691070

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Legal Terminology by Gordon W. Brown Pdf

For Legal Secretarial, Paralegal, Legal Assistant, Business Science, Criminal Justice, and Court Reporting programs; also appropriate undergraduate college-level courses in Business Law, Legal Transcription, Law Office Procedures, Introduction to Paralegal, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Legal Systems, Government and the Law, Legal Environment of Business, Computers and the Law, and Legal Word Processing. Structured into short, easily digested chapters, Legal Terminology presents the fundamentals of the principal areas of the law, intermingling legal terms with their definitions and pronunciations. This text/workbook includes numerous student activities that assist instructors in teaching students to work with legal terminology; attention-getting motivational devices (including cartoons, graphics from the Library of Congress, and the "Word Wise," "Web Wise," and "Constitutional Wise" features) help to provide clear, concise explanations of the law.

Author : Johnny Chuong
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1973503883

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Civil Law Vocabulary in Use by Johnny Chuong Pdf

Downloaded by over 15,000 people... # Release Hurry up and get YOUR copy NOW❗ Master 350+ Essential Civil Law Terms And Phrases Explained With Examples In 10 Minutes A Day! With a clear, concise, and engaging writing style, Johnny Chuong will provides you over 350 civil law terms and phrases that help you expand your legal words list with a practical understanding of civil law topics such as civil rights & obligations, guardianship, civil transactions, estate, lending, types of civil contracts, security for performance of civil obligations, civil liability, Invalid civil transactions, Inheritanceand much much more. If you'd like to improve your vocabulary as well as enhance your knowledge about civil law topics, then this book may be the most important book that you will ever read. As the author of the book, I promise this book will be an invaluable source of legal reference for professionals, international lawyers, law students, business professionals and anyone else who want to improve their use of legal terminology, succinct clarification of legal terms and have a better understanding of civil law and civil procedure. This book provides you with a comprehensive and highly practical approach in legal contexts, the world of civil law related to civil rights, guardianship, civil transactions, security for performance of civil obligations, civil liability, civil contracts, all substantive and procedural aspects of civil law. All legal terms and phrases are well written and explained clearly in plain English. Don't delay any more seconds, scroll back up, PURCHASE your copy NOW and start the journey of mastering 350+ essential Civil Law Terms and Phrases TODAY! Tags: civil law, civil litigation, civil procedure, civil procedure examples and explanations, legal terms and meanings, legal terminology and phrases, legal vocabulary, law vocabulary, legal words you should know, legal terms, legal dictionary, lawyer terms, legal language, common legal terms, legal terminology for dummies, legal terms used in court, dictionary of legal terms, legal phrases, legal documents, legal education, legal english dictionary, law dictionary, legal kindle books, law books for students, legal terms dictionary, legal documents, legal terms in court, lawyer terminology, terms used in law, basic legal terminology, basic legal terms, dictionary of law, legal english dictionary, words used in law

Author : Rossini
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004638914

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English as a Legal Language by Rossini Pdf

English as a Legal Language is a lawyer's plain language guide to English legal terminology. Anyone who finds it difficult to express legal terms in English simply looks under the general heading to find the relevant terms and their usage. This book can also be used to find explanations of words from a translating dictionary. Further, it is structured as a thesaurus, organized according to topic with an alphabetical index. More and more, lawyers need the English language. But attempts to convert the language to meet one's own purpose often result in misconceptions. English legal language has its roots in the Anglo-American legal tradition and the non-native speaking lawyer may have difficulty understanding a word choice in English without also seeing how it fits into legal thinking and relates to other words in the subject area as a whole. English as a Legal Language offers a comparative lexicon of US and UK legal systems, with references to European legal systems. Special features of this work include: - The vocabulary of an entire area of law in each section; - A verb section which provides guidance on substantives, adjectives, adverbs, phrases, usage, as well as sample sentences and clues about typical mistakes; and - An index which gives an alphabetical rendition of the topically ordered definitions - essential for words that have multiple definitions. All lawyers working in English, and especially continental European lawyers, will find this book indispensable in their practices. The book is also of prime interest to business people, accountants, translators, legal secretaries and students. It will enable all practitioners and academics to express complex ideas in English, to understand the intricacies of English as a legal language, and to avoid the potential mishaps, when language barriers prevent a true meeting of minds.

Author : Daniel Williman
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : 0921149026

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Legal Terminology by Daniel Williman Pdf