Dictionaries & Handbooks
Handbooks
 The Law Handbook of South Australia
Maintained by the Legal Services Commission of South Australia, the Law Handbook provides a useful starting point to the law in South Australia for the non-lawyer.
Legal Dictionaries
Legal dictionaries come in a variety of forms and might include Legal Latin dictionaries, dictionaries of terms occurring in statutes, encyclopaedic dictionaries, and dictionaries of 'legal words and phrases', whih point to the case or statute law authority for the word or phrase.
Australian
Butterworths Concise Australian Legal Dictionary, 2nd ed. Law Reference K120 B988c.3
Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary on LexisNexis AU
A comprehensive encyclopaedic
online dictionary defining legal words and phrases and providing the case or
statute law authorities for the definition. Also includes a Table of popular
Australian case names; Prime Ministers; Justices of the High Court of Australia;
and Table of Abbreviations.
More Law dictionaries may also be located in the Law Library Reference collection.
Foreign
Black's
Law Dictionary, 8th ed.
The most authoritative legal dictionary in the United
States, with cross-references to cases.
Also available in print, Law Library Reference K120 B62.8
Bouvier Law Dictionary,
Rev. 6th ed. 1856
A law dictionary adapted to the constitution and laws of the United States of
America and of the several states of the American Union by John Bouvier Revised
Sixth Edition, 1856 Select the first letter of the word you want to look up.
Duhaime's Law Dictionary
Well researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge.
Lectric Law Library's Legal Lexicon's
Lyceum
"Thousands of Definitions & Explanations of Legal Terms, Phrases & Concepts."
 Words and Phrases
Stroud's Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases (3 vols) Law Reference
K120 S92.7
Words and Phrases Legally Defined (4 vols) Law Reference K120 W924.4
General Dictionaries
There are a number of general dictionaries held in Law Reference.
Some additional online general dictionaries include:
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