NCJ Number
75488
Date Published
1979
Length
158 pages
Annotation
Definitions of over 1,400 Canadian legal terms are provided in this text written primarily for legal students at the community college level, especially those training to be shorthand writers and legal secretaries.
Abstract
The book's goals are to extend knowledge and understanding of the principles of important legal phrases and definitions and to present their relationships within legal actions or transactions. The book's first section defines 31 different types of law, including absolute law, administrative law, canon law, criminal law, and public law. The book's second and largest section provides definitions of legal words in 10 different subject areas: banking, commercial enterprises, contracts, courts, court procedures, criminal law, estates, insurance, labor law, and real estate. Terms are listed in alphabetical order within each subject area. The book's third section presents and defines such foreign words and phrases as as litem, agent provocateur, caveat emptor, and mens rea. In the final section, longstanding legal maxims that embody the elementary doctrines of the English common law are presented. Among the maxims are (1) that custom is to be held as a law if no specific law exists and (2) that there is no wrong without a remedy. An index is provided.