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Legal Definitions
- BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY (Bryan A. Garner ed.) Print: Law Library Reference KF156 .B53 2014. Westlaw.
- Bryan A. Garner, A DICTIONARY OF MODERN LEGAL USAGE (2003). Print: Law Library Reference PE2827 .G37 2003.
- WORDS AND PHRASES (1940 - [2008]). Print: Law Library Stacks KF156.W6
- (Permanent Ed., 1658 to date. All Judicial constructions and defintions of words and phrases by the State and Federal courts from the earliest times, alphabetically arranged and indexed).
- Each definition contains a citation from the court that provided the definition.
- Now integrated into the search system of Westlaw.
- WORDS AND PHRASES field search in Westlaw cases and statutes databases. Example:
- Users can do similar searching via Lexis Advance although Lexis does not provide access to the official Thomson Reuters Words and Phrases publication: Example:
- Lexis Advance -Headnote (“essential witness”)
- Or: “essential witness” w/s meaning or defin!