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This up-to-date and authoritative dictionary has over 10,000 definitions of over 5,000 terms with phonetic pronunciations. Includes key words, phrases, major U.S. Supreme Court Cases, legal rules, and Acts of Congress and ethics by NALA and NFPA.
Amazon.com Review
Of all the confusing jargons of the world, legalese takes the cake. But you no longer need pay $200 an hour just to understand the subtleties of liquidated claims, percentage leases, blockage rules, and confiscatory rate orders. Ballentine's defines more than 5,000 legal terms, and provides phonetic pronunciations, major Supreme Court cases, legal rules, and pertinent acts of Congress, making the dictionary a boon to legal assistants, law students, and the ordinary citizen, hereinafter known as you, who'd like to be able to read a contract, understand it, and not get a headache.
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