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Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker

Name: Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker
Author: James E. Clapp
ISBN: 9780375401558

by James E. Clapp

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Overview

Compact and comprehensive, the Random House Webster's Legal Spell Checker is sure to enhance the professional skills necessary for lawyers, legal secretaries, paralegals, law and prelaw students, educators and anyone else who produces documents with legal content.

This invaluable reference includes:
Terms for all subfields of law -- from maritime law and legal philosophy to criminal procedure and environmental law
Well-known legal terms -- indict, hereinafter and judgment
Distinctions between confusingly similar terms: endorse and indorse, parol and parole
Law French terms -- cestui que trust and prochein ami
Latin legal terms -- habeas corpus and particeps criminis
Terms for English common law of property: curtesy and enfeoffment
Terms from new fields of law: cyberfraud

Author Biography: James E. Clapp, a former member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Stone Fiske Scholar, has done professional legal work for a number of firms and has written briefs for cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.

About the Author, James E. Clapp

James E. Clapp, a former member of the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Stone Fiske Scholar, has done professional legal work for a number of firms and has written briefs for cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.