Pre-Owned Random House Webster's Pocket Legal Dictionary: Second Edition (Paperback) 0679764356 9780679764359

Random House Webster's Pocket Legal Dictionarygoes beyond goes beyond surface definitions of legal terms, enabling the user to come away with some grasp of the current scope and significance of myriad legal concepts. This is achieved through: definitions that include enough detail to avoid being simplistic examples of sentences and phrases showing how a term is used subentries that flesh out the meaning of the main entry term histroical information, summaries of recent cases or other commentary division of certain items into separate entries to avoid confusion between unrelated easily conflated meanings copious cross-references to related or contrasting terms that help to place an entry in context and clarify its scope an appendix summarizing all of the amendments to the United States Constitution, which are the source of so many of the most fundamental principles in American law

Title: Random House Webster's Pocket Legal Dictionary: Second Edition ISBN10: 0679764356 EAN: 9780679764359 Genre: LAW / Dictionaries & Terminology Author: Clapp, James E. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.