Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker

Clapp, James E. ed.

ISBN 10: 0375401555 / ISBN 13: 9780375401558

Published by Random House, New York, 1998

About this Item

371 pages. There is very minor shelf and edge wear and a very small nick on the bottom edge. However, overall this book is in fine to as new condition. With over 40,000 words and phrases used in law, this book would be an excellent reference tool for anyone in the legal profession.

Seller Inventory # 000971

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375401555
• ISBN 13: 9780375401558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Compact and comprehensive, the Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker is sure to enhance the professional skills necessary for lawyers, legal secretaries, paralegals, law and prelaw students, educators and anyone else who produces documents with legal content.

This invaluable reference includes:
Terms for all subfields of law -- from maritime law and legal philosophy to criminal procedure and environmental law
Well-known legal terms -- indict, hereinafter and judgment
Distinctions between confusingly similar terms: endorse and indorse, parol and parole
Law French terms -- cestui que trust and prochein ami
Latin legal terms -- habeas corpus and particeps criminis
Terms for English common law of property: curtesy and enfeoffment
Terms from new fields of law: cyberfraud

About the Author

James E. Clapp, a former member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Stone Fiske Scholar, has done professional legal work for a number of firms and has written briefs for cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.