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,
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.