Reviews (8)

Very Helpful Product
This is the legal thesaurus that all my law professors suggested.So far it has been very helpful in research and writing.

Relied on daily at work
Next to case law, I find Burton's Legal Thesaurus indispensible in writing appellate briefs. I only wish it were available in a downloadable form for use with my word processing program.

Indispensable Tool for Your Legal Writing Kit
"Good luck," my employer wished as he handed me a plane ticket and a tome of a background packet.I was leaving on a critical six-week business trip to an alien state in the midwest.No problem - except that five days prior the law review had accepted me as one of three eveningdivision 2Ls for candidacy and my first case abstracts were due in twentydays.Hmmm . . .Read more

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. English language    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal System    6. Reference    7. Synonyms and antonyms    8. Terminology    9. Thesauri    10. United States    11. Jurisprudence & General Issues    12. Reference works    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Criminal justice, Administrati    2. Criminal justice, Administration of    3. Criminal law    4. Criminal procedure    5. Criminology    6. Dictionaries    7. Dictionaries & Terminology    8. Law    9. Sociology    10. United States   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Reference   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. General    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal System   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. General    3. Law (General)    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Reference    6. European Union (EU) Law    7. Reference works   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries    2. Dictionaries & Terminology    3. English    4. French    5. French language    6. General    7. Language    8. Law    9. Reference   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries    2. Dictionaries & Terminology    3. Great Britain    4. Law    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Reviews (2)

This Book Is Worth It!
I found this book very useful since it assists the practictioner with the problem of explaining "concepts" that are virtually untranslatable. Though there may be a few quibbles with some of the trsanslation, Dahl does an excellent job of helping to understand concepts. For example, his explanation of "Discovery" and its scope and limits is brilliant. It is a very useful tool to explain such concepts to the non-U.S. person who has little understanding of the complexities of U.S. law. I highly recommend this book.

Not the best choice.
The advertising blurbs about this dictionary make it sound very promising indeed. It is "an annotated legal dictionary, including authoritative definitions from codes, case law, statutes, legal writing and legal opinions from attorneys general." Unfortunately, however, it shares many of the problems noted in Dahl's French legal dictionary. Like its French counterpart, the Spanish Dahl suffers from many instances of tortured translation. For example, under "cobro de lo indebido," we read: "If a thing is received when there was no right to claim it and which, through an error, has been unduly delivered, there arises an obligation to restore the same. A person, who in good faith should have accepted a payment of a certain and specified thing not due, shall only be liable for the impairment or loss of the latter and its accessories, in so far [sic] as he may have enriched himself by it." I would wager that most readers, even ones with legal training, would find that definition pretty hard to follow.Read more

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries    2. Dictionaries & Terminology    3. English language    4. Foreign Language Study    5. Law    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Reference    8. Spanish   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Dictionaries - General    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Dictionaries - General    3. Law   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Jurisprudence    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Law   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Law    3. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Dictionaries - General    3. Law   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Reference   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Dictionaries - General    3. Law    4. Reference    5. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Reference    5. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction   

Subjects:  1. Dictionaries & Terminology    2. Law    3. Spanish: Adult Nonfiction