Canadian Law Dictionaries

• Canadian Law Dictionary (KE 183.Y63 2003). The fifth edition provides seven helpful appendices as well a bibliography, a pronunciation guide, and includes an outline of the Canadian court system. This is a one-volume work, written in English. Many citations are made to court cases, code sections and secondary sources shedding more light on a defined term.
• Dictionnaire de Droit Quebecois et Canadien (KE 183.R45 2000). This is a one-volume work, written in French. Entries include definitions as well as references to synonyms or comparable terms in French as well as the English equivalent of the term or phrase. A glossary translates words from English to French.
• Pocket Dictionary of Canadian Law (KE 183.D85x 2002). Definitions in this work arise mainly from primary sources of Canadian law, including cases, statutes, regulations and basic Canadian legal textbooks. This pocket-size legal dictionary provides quick reference to over 16,000 Canadian legal definitions. This new edition includes 2,959 new definitions.
• The Dictionary of Canadian Law (KE 183.D85x 1995). This one-volume work provides citations to case law, statutes and secondary sources in its definitions. Many cross-references are provided to broader and narrower terms of the defined term to assist the user.

Law Dictionaries and Similar Works

• Daphne A. Dukelow, Dictionary of Canadian law: 4th ed. (Toronto, Ont.: Thomson Carswell, 2011)
• Jean E.L. Côté, Words that bind : words and phrases judicially considered by the Supreme Court of Canada and by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to 1949, (Edmonton: Juriliber, 2011)
• John A. Yogis and Catherine Cotter, Barron’s Canadian law dictionary, 6th ed. (Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron’s Educational Series, 2009)
• Hubert Reid, Dictionnaire de droit québecois et canadien, 3rd ed. (Montral: Wilson & Lafleur, 2004)
• Daphne A. Dukelow, Pocket dictionary of Canadian law. 3rd ed. (Toronto, Ont.: Carswell, 2002)
• Louis Beaudoin, Les mots du droit : lexique analogique juridique = legal thesaurus
  (Cowansville, Qubec: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2000)
• Canadian Legal Words and Phrases. CA0BRW file, available on QuickLaw/LexisNexis
• Words & Phrases Judicially Defined in Canadian Courts and Tribunals (Toronto: Carswell, 1993-). 8 volumes, with irregularly issued cumulative supplements, and monthly updates.

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