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Whistle Stopper - Black's Law Dictionary, Eighth Edition (Black's Law Dictionary (Standard Edition))
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List Price: $67.00
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Manufacturer: Thomson West
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.03
EAN: 9780314151995
ISBN: 0314151990
Label: Thomson West
Manufacturer: Thomson West
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1810
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher: Thomson West
Studio: Thomson West
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very Helpful
Comment: This dictionary is easy to read and very helpful for anyone looking up law terms. A great addition to any reference library.
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Summary: Awwww.....
Comment: Hardcover edition... $64.75
Paperpack... about $30
The look on your faces when told of its being based on a hoax...
~Priceless~
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Summary: Black's Law Dictionary
Comment: This is an essential for any home or office Law Library. It is wonderful and beautiful in the hard-back edition and very much worth the money. I highly recommend it for any practicing Attorney, or their assistant.
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Summary: It's great!!
Comment: As you know, this book is famous of its abundunt contents and well-organised materials. That's true. I'm especially satisfied with its a wide variety of instances. Although it's unconvenient to carry because of weight, this is very useful for me to read legal articles or treatises.
I'm sure it'll help you to improve your understanding of legal mind and terms if you keep it with you!
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Summary: Indispensable, but I have a quibble
Comment: I know Garner slightly, having worked with him on a project some years back. He is, in my opinion, the single most qualified person in the world to "edit" this book. I put "edit" in quotes because he simply rewrote many of the definitions, going to the source law for the proper wording. West properly made him editor in chief of Black's, which had been in decline for years. For several years, they (West) seemed to leave him alone to redo the book as he saw fit, and the 7th edition (if that was his first, I forget) was a magisterial effort.
This one is mostly as good, but he (mostly) fails to put back in the book one of the saving virtues of prior editions-- case law citations to seminal cases dealing with the term and its definition(s). Instead, this edition features references to CJS does anyone past law school use it CJS any more) and the West Key Number System. The latter can be pretty cool if you have a West subscription that allows you access to the digests, but that level of product is quite expensive. Law students get pretty much everything for "free," but unless you work for a big firm or a government willing to pay for it, extras like the digests are a luxury. In a cursory examination of my new 8th Edition, I found very, very few real case law cites-- in fact, many of the block quotes are from other treatises and even nutshells.
I'm sure West is behind citing to the Key Numbers in lieu of cases. I hope this is the extent of their meddling in what is still the only legal dictionary worth having, and they won't mess it up through dubious marketing ploys and neglect, the way they've done with FindLaw.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Edited by Bryan A. Garner, the world's leading legal lexicographer, Black's Law Dictionary, 8th Edition is now better than ever! The new 8th Edition has more than 43,000 definitions, plus almost 3,000 quotations. Alternative spellings or equivalent terms and expressions are provided for more than 5,300 terms and senses, serving a thesaurus-like function. The extensive appendix on legal abbreviations is a major addition. It's the first time such a comprehensive guide has been included in a modern law dictionary, and is an invaluable aid to the legal researcher.
-17,000 more definitions than the 7th Edition
-Newly enhanced with West Key Numbers for research reference
-Includes changes made since the creation of the department of Homeland Security
-Almost 3,000 quotations from authorities drawn from sources over at least five centuries
-More than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms are defined
-Extensive appendix on legal abbreviations
-Faculty recommended
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