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Glossary of Appeals Terminology

JURIST's dictionary of basic U.S. Legal Terminology:
 focuses on legal procedure, enhanced with hyperlinks to relevant
Websites. Browse by letter, or use our "Find" function: 

• Admiralty Law Glossary (Professor William Tetley, McGill Law School)
• Hyperdictionary of Electronic Commerce Law (Dr. Michael I. Shamos, Esq., Carnegie-Mellon University).
• International Law Dictionary (Professor Ray August, Washington State University)

Law students will be especially interested in:

• 1L Dictionary (Harvard Law School Library)
• Working Glossary of Legal Recruitment and Career Services Terms and Jargon (National Association for Law Placement)

Commercially-published online legal dictionaries include: Oran's Legal Dictionary (West), Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law (FindLaw), and the Real-Life Dictionary of the Law (Law.com).