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A law dictionary (also known as legal dictionary) is a dictionary that is designed and compiled to give information about terms used in the field of law. Types [ edit ] Distinctions are made among various types of law dictionaries.
Landed property, tenement of land, especially with respect to an easement ( servitude ). 2 types: praedium dominans - dominant estate ( aka dominant tenement) praedium serviens - servient estate ( aka servient tenement) praeemptio. previous purchase. Right of first refusal. praesumptio.
The following pages contain lists of legal terms: List of Latin legal terms. List of legal abbreviations. List of legal abbreviations (canon law) on Wiktionary: Appendix: English legal terms. Appendix: Glossary of legal terms.
Interpretation of Documents is a book by Sir Roland Burrows. The first edition was published in 1944 and is a reprint of the introduction to volume 1 of Words and Phrases Judicially Defined. [7] [8] The second edition was published in 1946. The Law Times said that the differences between the two editions are not substantial.
A term used in logic to denote an argument to the effect that because one ascertained fact exists, therefore another, which is included in it, and which is less improbable, unusual, or surprising, must also exist. [1] A mensa et thoro. From bed and board. Descriptive of a limited divorce or separation by judicial sentence. [1] A quo: from which.
L.Ed — Lawyers' Edition. L.Ed.2d — Lawyers 2nd Edition. LJ – Postnominals of a Lord or Lady Justice of Appeal (United Kingdom) LJJ – Postnominals of Lords or Ladies Justice of Appeal, plural (United Kingdom) LL.B. – Legum Baccalaureus — Bachelor of Laws. LLC — Limited liability company. LL.D. – Legum Doctor — Doctor of Law.
History. The first edition was published in 1891 by West Publishing, with the full title A Dictionary of Law: containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern, including the principal terms of international constitutional and commercial law, with a collection of legal maxims and numerous select titles from the civil law and other foreign ...
Wex. Wex is a collaboratively-edited legal dictionary and encyclopaedia, [3] intended for broad use by "practically everyone, even law students and lawyers entering new areas of law". [4] It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute ("LII") at the Cornell Law School. [4] Much of the material that appears in Wex was originally ...