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Webster's New World Law Dictionary

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I may be misunderstanding the previous reviewer (CR), but the way to look up a word in a dictionary is to turn to the letter and page that contains the term. It would be very odd for a dictionary to be separately indexed as that reviewer suggests it should be. That said, this particular dictionary is a lightweight among legal dictionaries. If you want a Webster's legal dictionary, the earlier Webster's Dictionary of Law is better.

This book is a paperback, inexpensive list of some of the most important legal terms in the US. It may not have been intended, but it is absolutely perfect for non-lawyers. I am both a civil lawyer and a Catholic Canon Lawyer and I recommend this book to other canon lawyers (without the civil law degree) to pick-up and keep on their book shelf. I like this book and find it very reader friendly. If you are in need of something to write that appellate brief, you already know that you should be using Black's. If you are just trying to lightly dip your toe into the legal world, then this is for you!

Good luck trying to use this reference. Who ever heard of a dictionary where you can't look up a term? This dictionary is not indexed in any way. So let's suppose you want to look up the definition of the word "contract." The only way to find it is to go page by page from "AAA" to "Contract" OR guess that the "c's " might be 20% into the dictionary and jump to that location OR use the Kindle search feature which will return 349 places in the text where the word "contract" is used-- 348 of them will not be the definition.