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Words and Phrases Legally Defined enables the practitioner to have at all times the precise meaning of a particular word or phrase. Definitions are taken from the Acts of Parliament, Halsbury’s Laws of England, leading textbooks and verbatim judgments from all over the Commonwealth.
Annual cumulative supplements, charged separately, ensure that the work is always up-to-date and include not only full coverage of English and Scottish cases and statutes but also extracts from Australian, Canadian and New Zealand cases.
This new edition of Words and Phrases Legally Defined is published as a two-volume set.