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Books
Canadian
o Allard et al., Private Law Dictionary and Bilingual Lexicons: Obligations (Cowansville, Qué.: Yvon Blais, 2003)
o Cote, J., Words that Bind: Words and Phrases Judicially Considered by the Supreme Court of Canada and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to 1949 (Edmonton: Juriliber, 2011)
o Curzon & Richards, The Longman dictionary of law, 7th ed. (Toronto: Pearson/Longman, 2007)
o Des Ormeaux, A., Legal Dictionary of Property in Canada, English/French: Common Law, Civil Law (Ottawa: Communications Branch, Department of Justice Canada, 2009)
o Dukelow, D., The dictionary of Canadian law, 4th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2011)
o Gardner & Gardner, Sanagan's Encyclopaedia of Words and Phrases Legal Maxims, Canada, 5th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o Words & phrases judicially defined in Canadian courts and tribunals (Toronto: Carswell) (8 volumes)
o Yogis, J., Canadian law dictionary, 5th ed. (New York: Barron's, 2003)
English
o Bix, B., A dictionary of legal theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
o Greenberg, D., Stroud’s judicial dictionary of words and phrases, 7th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)
o Greenberg et al., Jowitt's Dictionary of English law, 3rd ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)
o Gregory, Rothwell & Trotter, Anglo-Norman Dictionary (London: Manley Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2005)
o Knowles, E., Oxford dictionary of modern quotations, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o Martin & Jonathan, A dictionary of law, 6th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
o Phinnemore & McGowan, A dictionary of the European Union, 4th ed. (London: Routledge, 2008)
o Saunders, J., Words and phrases legally defined, 3rd ed. (London: Butterworths UK, looseleaf)
o Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
o Woodley et al., Osborn’s concise law dictionary, 10th ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2005)
American
o Bartlett, J., Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature, 17th ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 2002)
o Burton, W., Burton's Legal Thesaurus, 4th ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2007)
o Dahl, H., Dahl's Law Dictionary: French to English / English to French: An Annotated Legal Dictionary, Including Definitions from Codes, Case Law, Statutes, and Legal Writing, 3rd ed. (Buffalo, NY.: William S. Hein & Co., 2007)
o Friedman et al., Dictionary of business terms, 3rd ed. (New York, Barron's Educational Series, 2000)
o Garner, B., Black's law dictionary, 9th ed. (United States: Thomson Reuters, 2009)
o Grant & Barker, Parry and Grant encyclopaedic dictionary of international law, 2nd ed. (New York: Oceana Publications, 2004)
o Gifis, S., Dictionary of legal terms: a simplified guide to the language of law, 4th ed. (Hauppauge: Barron's Educational Series, 2008)
o Stedman, T., Stedman's medical dictionary, 27th ed. (Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000)
Other countries
o Sims, V., English law and terminology: a guide for practitioners and students (Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2006)
Legal translation
o Dahl's law dictionary: French to English/English to French: an annotated legal dictionary, including definitions from codes, case law, statutes, and legal writing, 3rd ed. (Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein; Paris: Dalloz, 2007)
o Kaplan, S., English/Spanish and Spanish/English legal dictionary, 3rd ed. (Austin, Tex.: Kluwer Law International, 2008)
Websites
Canadian legal dictionaries online
Vancouver Community College Multilingual Legal Glossary.
JURIST Canada's browsable dictionary of basic Canadian legal terms
Duhaime's Law Dictionary
English – French dictionary of legislative terms
Glossary of legal research terms
Glossary of Parliamentary Procedure (Houses of Commons Canada) http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/glossary/gloss-e.htm
Alberta parliamentary terms
Tool that converts all words on a webpage into hotlinks providing dictionary definitions
United States legal dictionaries online
Findlaw.com dictionary
Lawyer international dictionary
Legal Lexicon's Lyceum
Jurist Law Dictionary
Commonly used terms in American courts
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
Nolo legal dictionary
Legal dictionary
Cornell Law Dictionary (American)
American Law dictionary
Legal dictionary page of the freedictionary.com
Subject specific dictionaries
Glossary of Maritime Law Terms
Insurance information institute glossary of insurance terms
InsWeb glossary of insurance terms
Medical dictionary - Medterms.com
Visual Medical Dictionary
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
A dictionary of technology and Internet terminology - webopedia.com
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