Dictionary Of Legal Abbreviations Used In American Law Books

This book is a complete reference work to more than seventeen thousand domestic and international abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols used in contemporary legal literature.

This book is a complete reference work to more than seventeen thousand domestic and international abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols used in contemporary legal literature.

Each volume separately titled: v. 1, Acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary; v. 2, New acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations (formerly issued independently as New acronyms and initialisms); v. 3, Reverse acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary (formerly issued independently as Reverse acronyms and initialisms dictionary).

Contains an extensive range of acronyms, abbreviations, and symbols found in reporters, legal treatises, law reviews, looseleaf services, legal encyclopedias, law dictionaries, legal reference books, and selected other documents. Enables users to identify the meaning of abbreviations and acronyms employed in American legal literature (Part I) and also to identify the abbreviations for titles, names, and terms used (Part II, the reversed portion). Includes abbreviations established by well-recognized authorities as well as abbreviations otherwise devised by authors in their efforts to shorten legal references and citations. This edition provides more than 1,500 new or expanded entries.

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This monograph is the most comprehensive comparative law study of legal responsibility arising from medical care presently available. It is written for doctors as well as health care administrators and legal professionals. Focusing on the problems of civil liability, it presents the development, points of contact with, and differences between the modern law of medical liability stemming from both the Common Law and Civil Law traditions of England, Scotland, Eire, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, South Africa, France, Belgium, West Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. It demonstrates the extent to which both problems of medical law and trends towards their solution are already familiar in these legal systems. The work describes principles and trends, not by confronting the reader with national reports' and separate chapters on different legal systems; rather, the relevant legal problems are analyzed from an integrative, comparative viewpoint. The main thrust of the presentation is the analysis of numerous court decisions -- the number of which is rising ominously in the United States -- on the civil liability of doctors and hospitals for damages arising from substandard treatment or inadequate disclosure of information to the patient. References to the legal and medical literature, indexes, and a refined system of cross-references, together with an important collection of appendices covering legal and ethical declarations make this work accessible as a handbook and reference work for the legal and social problems encountered today in the wide area of law, ethics, and medicine.

A comprehensive list (more than 35,000) of abbreviations used in legal encyclopedias, law dictionaries, law reporters, loose-leaf services, law reviews, legal treatises, legal reference books and citators. In addition to providing the meaning of abbreviations and acronyms, this edition also enables the user to locate the abbreviations for titles, terms and names used in legal literature.

Abbreviations Used in Law Books was reprinted from The Lawyer's Reference Manual of Law Books & Citations, Edition of 1883.

1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.

Vols. 1- include Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Australian and New Zealand legal abbreviations.

Excerpt from Law Dictionary: Use of Students and the Legal Profession The need of an Abridged Law Dictionary, which should contain the substance of the unabridged dictionaries, is conceded on all sides. Mr. Brown's English Law Dictionary seemed to supply this want in Great Britain; but some changes were required to adapt it to American law, and some additions were found desirable to render it complete. The American editor has, therefore, made occasional changes in the text, and, while in some instances considerable matter has been stricken out as being without usefulness or interest to the American law student, yet many new titles have been added, and several definitions have been entirely rewritten. The new titles are indicated by an asterisk; other modifications it has been found impracticable to indicate. It has not been the design to entirely Americanize the work, but only to conform it to the common law as existing in this country. The statutory law of the different States and of the United States could not be embraced within the limits of this work, even if that were appropriate in a law dictionary. It is believed that the law student will find every thing of value in this little work which can be found in either Bouvier's or Burrill's large dictionaries. And there are some features which are of unusual interest, such as the accounts of the English Courts and legal institutions, which Mr. Brown has furnished in a way unparalleled in any other dictionary. The tables of law reports and their abbreviations, and the list of legal maxims which are appended to the work by the American editor, will be found of great service. Although the work remains substantially an English law dictionary, the American editor is confident that it will be entirely satisfactory to the profession in this country, besides possessing the superior merit of illustrating the principle of multum in porvo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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