ResearchGuides: U.S. Legal Research for International Students: Legal Dictionaries

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The ABA Spanish Legal Phrasebook by Samantha Snow Ward; Corinne Cooper
Call Number: K52.S6 W37 2010 (Reference)
Black's Law Dictionary by Bryan A. Garner, ed.
Call Number: KF156 .B53 2024

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Westlaw (Blacks)

ISBN: 9798350290899

Publication Date: 2024

Black's is a very popular one-volume legal dictionary. Many of the definitions are supplemented with citations and other material. The volume includes a table of legal abbreviations.
Elsevier's legal dictionary : in English, German, French, Dutch, and Spanish by D.C. van Hoof et al.
Call Number: K 54 .E45 2001 (Reference)
Merriam-Webster's dictionary of law
Call Number: KF156 .M47 2011 (Reference)
Mexican legal dictionary by Jorge A. Vargas
Call Number: KGF 102 .V37 2012 (Reference)

Over 4,000 legal terms, definitions, rules and legal principles taken from federal codes, federal statutes, regulations, bilateral treaties, and international agreements between the United States and Mexico.
Russian-English legal dictionary and bibliographic sources for Russian law in English by W.E. Butler
Call Number: K 52.R8 B878 2001 (Reference)
Wörterbuch für Recht, Wirtschaft und Politik: mit Kommentaren in deutscher und englischer Sprache
Call Number: K 52.G47 W66 2005 (Reference)

Dictionary of German legal, commercial and political terms.