Black's Law Dictionary: Deluxe 9th ed

Black's Law Dictionary

For more than a century, Black’s has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today it’s the most widely cited law book in the world. Edited by the world’s leading legal lexicographer, the ninth edition is much more than one of the most authoritative, comprehensive legal dictionaries every published. It contains more than 45,000 terms and includes:-

• 2,000 new terms including click fraud, Code Adam, collaborative law, ecoterrorism, environmental tort, f
• riendly subpoena, happy-slapping, honor crime, secret detention, Schumer box, and super precedent.
• The date when selected terms were first used in an English-language context, especially in judicial opinions.
• Heightened accuracy with more than 200 lawyers around the USA reviewing 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.