(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:
WP (“essential witness”)
Users can do similar searching via Lexis Advance although Lexis does not provide access to the official Thomson Reuters Words and Phrases publication: Example: