The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-18610-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings.

This useful guide offers readers an extensive collection of over 4700 Latin words and phrases, 500 Latin abbreviations, and hundreds of informative legal maxims, principles, and interesting quotations drawn from the field of law, including terms and legal concepts related to commercial, international, political, personal, and societal as well as property and inheritance laws for which use of the Latin language has remained indispensable. Also included is a helpful pronunciation guide and a miscellaneous section featuring Latin prepositions, particles, common prefixes, Roman numerals, and more. Included at the end of this reference work is an extensive English-Latin index to assist readers in swiftly locating legal words and phrases.

Offering quick, accessible definitions and helpful explanations of Latin words and phrases, The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is the ideal reference work for professionals across the legal field, including lawyers, judges, and paralegals as well as law students and all interested readers.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stone, Jon R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface viii References and Sources xiv Pronunciation Guide xvii Latin Legal Words and Phrases 1 Selected Latin Maxims and Legal Principles 168 A Sampling of Latin Quotations Related to Law and Life 204 Latin Abbreviations 211 Miscellanea (Miscellaneous) 227 Some Common Prepositions and Particles 227 Some Common Prefixes 228 The Latin Calendar 229 Roman Numerals 230 English-Latin Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Jon R. Stone is a best-selling author and Professor of Theory and Research Methods at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Latin for the Illiterati, More Latin for the Illiterati, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations, and The Routledge Book of World Proverbs, among many others.