Black's Law Dictionary, 8th ed.Vote-counters take note: Let there be no doubt about the meaning of the word "chad"--dimpled, hanging, or otherwise--in the recent presidential election. West, a Thomson business and one of the foremost providers of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market, has released the eighth edition of Black's Law Dictionary Black's Law Dictionary is the law dictionary for the law of the United States. It was founded by Henry Campbell Black. It has been cited as legal authority in many Supreme Court cases (see Secondary authority). [R], with definitions of 17,000 additional terms, including four kinds of chad, veggielibel law, and enemy combatant Captured fighter in a war who is not entitled to prisoner of war status because he or she does not meet the definition of a lawful combatant as established by the geneva convention; a saboteur. The U.S. . Edited by Bryan A. Garner, a leading legal lexicographer A person who writes dictionaries. See computer lexicographer. , Black's Law Dictionary is cited more than any other law dictionary in the United States and is a recognized authority in the definition of legal terms. Features include: * More than 23,000 meticulously researched new definitions, including 17,000 new entries. * More than 10,000 entries now contain citations to the West Key Number System[R] and to Corpus Juris Secundum The Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.) is an encyclopedia of U.S. law (see Secondary authority). Its full title is Corpus Juris Secundum: Complete Restatement Of The Entire American Law As Developed By All Reported Cases [R], providing a clear map to cases and encyclopedic en·cy·clo·pe·dic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an encyclopedia. 2. Embracing many subjects; comprehensive: "an ignorance almost as encyclopedic as his erudition" analysis. * Expanded coverage of growing practice areas, including intellectual property, family law, and criminal law. * Broadened and refined terms from civil-law jurisdictions and from such specialized fields of law as admiralty, parliamentary law parliamentary law, rules under which deliberative bodies conduct their proceedings. In English-speaking countries these are based on the practice of the British Parliament, chiefly in the House of Commons. , oil-and-gas law, and international law. * A new table of legal abbreviations that lists more than 4,000 shortened forms found in legal text and citations. * Expanded coverage of certain regions, including Louisiana, Mexico, England, and Scotland. "This edition benefits not only from an infusion of current legal terms, but from the incredible intellectual contributions of advisors from Berkeley, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, Texas, Yale, and other law schools," said Garner. "These board members played a pivotal role in cultivating the text into a first-rate work of scholarship." Garner is the author of more than a dozen books on legal writing, English usage, and other subjects. As president of LawProse, Inc., of Dallas, he gives continuing legal education The purpose of continuing legal education is to maintain or sharpen the skills of licensed attorneys and judges. Accredited courses examine new areas of the law or review basic practice and trial principles. seminars covering all aspects of legal writing and drafting. For more information about Black's Law Dictionary, 8th Edition, visit west.thomson.com or call (800) 762-5272. 
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