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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.
http://www.legalglossary.ca/dictionary/ [1]
  
JURIST Canada's browsable dictionary of basic Canadian legal terms
http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/dictionary.htm [2]
 
Duhaime's Law Dictionary
http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/LegalTerms.aspx [3]
 
English – French dictionary of legislative terms
http://www.onterm.gov.on.ca/lexicon_e.html [4]  
 
Glossary of legal research terms
http://legalresearch.org/docs/glossary.html [5]
 
Glossary of Parliamentary Procedure (Houses of Commons Canada) http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/glossary/gloss-e.htm [6]
 
Alberta parliamentary terms 
http://www.assembly.ab.ca/visitor/parlterms.htm [7]
 
Tool that converts all words on a webpage into hotlinks providing dictionary definitions
http://lingro.com/ [8]
 
United States legal dictionaries online
Findlaw.com dictionary
http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com [9]
 
Lawyer international dictionary
http://lawyerintl.com/modules/dictionary/ [10]
 
Legal Lexicon's Lyceum
http://www.lectlaw.com/def.htm [11]
 
Jurist Law Dictionary
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dictionary.htm [12]
  
Commonly used terms in American courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/library/glossary.html [13]
 
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/dictionary.html [14]
 
Nolo legal dictionary
http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm [15]
 
Legal dictionary
http://dictionary.law.com/ [16]
 
Cornell Law Dictionary (American)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/ [17]
 
American Law dictionary
http://www.constitution.org/bouv/bouvier.htm [18]
 
Legal dictionary page of the freedictionary.com
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com [19]
   
Subject specific dictionaries
Glossary of Maritime Law Terms 
http://www.mcgill.ca/maritimelaw/glossaries/maritime/ [20]
 
Insurance information institute glossary of insurance terms
http://www.iii.org/individuals/glossary/ [21]
 
InsWeb glossary of insurance terms
https://secure1.insweb.com/learningcenter/glossary/default.htm [22]
 
Medical dictionary - Medterms.com
http://www.medterms.com [23]
  
Visual Medical Dictionary
http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do [24]
 
Medical Abbreviations Dictionary
http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalabbreviations.php [25]
 
A dictionary of technology and Internet terminology - webopedia.com
http://www.webopedia.com/ [26]
 
Translation tools (translate blocks of text)
http://translator.live.com/ [27]
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ [28]
http://www.google.com/language_tools [29]
http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/ [30]
 

 

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Links
[1] http://www.legalglossary.ca/dictionary/
[2] http://jurist.law.utoronto.ca/dictionary.htm
[3] http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/LegalTerms.aspx
[4] http://www.onterm.gov.on.ca/lexicon_e.html
[5] http://legalresearch.org/docs/glossary.html
[6] http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/glossary/gloss-e.htm
[7] http://www.assembly.ab.ca/visitor/parlterms.htm
[8] http://lingro.com/
[9] http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/
[10] http://lawyerintl.com/modules/dictionary/
[11] http://www.lectlaw.com/def.htm
[12] http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dictionary.htm
[13] http://www.uscourts.gov/library/glossary.html
[14] http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/dictionary.html
[15] http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm
[16] http://dictionary.law.com/
[17] http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/
[18] http://www.constitution.org/bouv/bouvier.htm
[19] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/
[20] http://www.mcgill.ca/maritimelaw/glossaries/maritime/
[21] http://www.iii.org/individuals/glossary/
[22] https://secure1.insweb.com/learningcenter/glossary/default.htm
[23] http://www.medterms.com/
[24] http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
[25] http://www.medilexicon.com/medicalabbreviations.php
[26] http://www.webopedia.com/
[27] http://translator.live.com/
[28] http://babelfish.altavista.com/
[29] http://www.google.com/language_tools
[30] http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/