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This new edition of Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage discusses
and analyzes modern legal vocabulary and style more thoroughly than
any other contemporary reference work. Since the first edition,
Bryan A. Garner has drawn on his unrivaled experience as a legal
editor to refine his position on legal usage. The new Third Edition
remains indispensable: Garner has updated entries throughout, while
adding eight hundred new entries and new senses of existing
entries, as well as thousands of new illustrative quotations from
judicial opinions and leading lawbooks. Garner has also revised the
selected bibliography, and expanded and updated cross-references to
guide readers quickly and easily.
The GDLU now has much greater depth in particular areas of law,
such as immigration and intellectual property. More examples from
British English sources are included, to illustrate the
similarities and differences between American and British English,
and to aid readers using foreign common-law sources. Dozens of sets
of near-synonyms that have long perplexed lawyers are now concisely
defined and differentiated. Asterisks now precede words and phrases
that are invariably inferior forms, making it easy for readers to
tell which ones to avoid. A new category called Interpretation,
Modes of, outlines the theories and defines the terminology of
interpretation, also known as hermeneutics. Entries contain the
most comprehensive glossary available for words and phrases related
to legal interpretation. And, for the first time ever, sources are
consistently cited throughout, with a solid majority of citations
from post-2000. A new preface introduces the reader to this edition
and discusses the extensive content that has been newly
incorporated.
Influential writers and editors rely on Garner's Dictionary of
Legal Usage daily. It is an essential resource for practicing
lawyers, legal scholars, and libraries of all sizes and types,
functioning as both a style guide and a law dictionary, guiding
writers to distinguish between true terms of law and mere jargon
and illustrating recommended forms of expression. Common blunders
are discussed in ways that will discourage writers from any further
use. The origins of frequently used expressions are described with
engaging prose. Collectively, there is no better resource for
approaching legal writing in a logical, clear, and error-free way.
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