law glossaries a to z
My web travels today brought me to a number of glossaries that looked worth sharing with shlep‘s readers. It seems like a good time to bring together all of the glossaries that have already been mentioned at this weblog.
Specialized Glossaries 
- Accounting Terms Every Businessperson Should Know – from Nolo.com
- Antitrust Glossary by Charles E. Mueller
- Antitrust/Competition Glossary – the EC Directorate-General for Competition
- Bankruptcy Dictionary [Canada] – by bankruptcyCanada.com
- Community Association Glossary [condo, coops, etc.] – from Community Associations Institute
- Family Law Glossary – by the Montgomery Law firm, Cary, NC
- Financial Glossary – from MoneyGlossary.com
- Payday Loan glossary of terms – from Payday Loan Times
- Privacy Online Glossary – from BBB OnLine
- Real Estate Terminology (18-pp pdf) — from the Federal Trade Commision
- Wills and Estate Planning Glossary – from Nolo.com
General Legal Glossaries and Dictionaries
- California Self-Help Center Glossary of Legal Terms –
- Law.com’s Legal Dictionary –
- Duhaime’s Canadian Law Dictionary –
- Multilingual Legal Glossary [Canada] – Vancouver Community College; thousands of plain-language definitions of terms used in court (in English, Chinese, Farsi, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese — from science to cop jargon, to drug slang)
- NY CourtHelp‘s Glossary of Common Legal Terms –
- Everybody’s Law Dictionary – from Nolo.com – (hundreds of plain-English definitions, “from the common to the bizarre”)
p.s. As always, we invite readers to use our Comment feature to tell us of relevant resouces to add to our list.
If you know the concept, but not its legal terminology or nomenclature, you might try the OneLook Reverse Dictionary.
Cheryl Stephens
January 8, 2007 @ 7:12 pm
Please add this to your list in future.
The online, multilingual, plain language:
legalglossary.ca
It is Canadian but of use to those in most countries with Englaish-based legal systems.
It covers ALL areas of law.
It includes some 5,000 words and phrases.
It covers words encountered in the court system in the categories of: science, technical fields, police jargon, drug slang, criminal jargon, medical-legal jargon, and so on.
And it is translated into:
Chinese
Farsi
Punjabi
Russian
Spanish
Vietnamese
As a contributor, I am very proud of it as a useful resource.
david giacalone
January 8, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
Cheryl, That’s a great addition (and immediately added). Thank you for taking the time to share this resource with us.
Mary Whisner
February 1, 2007 @ 12:36 am
David,
Nice list!
Another one to add is the Legal Information Institute’s Wex, which is a dictionary (and an encyclopedia) wiki. Definitions are at http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Category:Definition
— Mary
Mary Whisner
February 1, 2007 @ 12:39 am
There are a couple of more listed in our library’s guide, http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/dict.html. — Mary
michael breckenridge
February 9, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
i am looking for terms or anything about pisoner rights after release from prison. any terms that i may be able to use. thank and if i can ever look something up for you please don’t hessitate to ask.
thanks again,
mike breckenridge
michaelbreckenridge813@yahoo.com