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Mellinkoff's Dictionary of American Legal Usage
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This book follows the dictate of simplicity that the language used by lawyers [should] agree with the common speech, unless there are reasons for a difference. Words with an old affinity for the law, but are no longer used or useful, have been omitted. Working survivors of ancient languages and usage are translated and explained. Words are grouped together as identical, similar, disparate, or departing from or paralleling the usage in ordinary English. Rendered in simplified phonetics, pronunciation is included here when it is unusual, exotic, controversial, or needed to prevent confusion.
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Pages 703
Dimensions: Length: 9.4" Width: 6.4" Height: 1.6"
Weight: 2.7 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Wipf & Stock Publishers
ISBN 1606088238
EAN 9781606088234
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 | A Must for Any Legal Writer Nov 4, 2007 |
Now I know what you're thinking. How good can this book be? Is it worth a review? Well, I'm here to tell you that it is.
The late great David Mellinkoff was a professor of mine more than a quarter century ago at UCLA School of Law. He was a true gentleman and scholar who exhibit grace and wit in all he did. This book is a testimony to his life's work, that of making the law more readable and understandable and of whipping the lazy writing of lawyers into shape. I bought the book after I heard Professor Mellinkoff deliver the lecture which spawned it, one of my few ventures back to UCLAW after I graduated. He attacked the conventional wisdom of using the time honored law dictionary, starting with Black's, for including things so archaic as to be beyond usage, e.g., the inclusion of a doitkin, also known as a doit, which was a 16th Century coin of little value, giving rise to the expression, "He's not worth a doit." When was the last time any of us heard that? Or, the inclusion of the timeless legal maxim. These Professor Mellinkoff dismissed by reminding us that a maxim is to law as a fortune cookie is to philosophy.
This volume, while scholarly and up to date, is sprinkled with similar wit and wisdom from a man who made his life's work trying to simplify, clarify, and update the writing of lawyers. It is well worth the price, and many to whom I have lent my copy over the years have returned with a smile from the entertainment value of reading it, as well as from the education, for it is that witty as well as that instructive, quite an accomplishment for a scholarly dictionary. | | | Write your own review about Mellinkoff's Dictionary of American Legal Usage
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