Monday, August 3, 2009

Legal resources at your fingertips

Are you a riparian landowner who is concerned with accretion or avulsion? Are you a fertile octogenarian? The Ballentine Law Dictionary can help you answer some of these questions. The Ballentine Law Dictionary is a handy reference that takes some of the confusion out of legal mumbo-jumbo. With over 40,000 entries, this comprehensive dictionary will help you to understand key legal terminology and how the legal definitions of some common words differ from their popular usage.

Ballentine, J.A. (1969) Ballentine's Law Dictionary with Pronunciations (3d edtion). Rochester, N.Y. : The Lawyer's Co-operative Publishing Company.


American Jurisprudence 2d is the first stop for legal research. Whether you're looking at landlord-tenant, employer-employee, or husband-wife relationships, the AmJur is the first place to start your research trail. The AmJur is a large series of volumes that seek to cover all aspects of legal concepts and terminology. Topics are treated in-depth, even to the point of spanning some major subjects (e.g. taxation and Social Security and Medicare) over several volumes. The AmJur explains the legal principles behind the topics and gives citations for further information and for legal principles contained within case law.

American Jurisprudence (2d Ed.)
. (2005) (Vols 1-80) Boston : Thompson-West.

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