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Legal lexicography: A view from the front lines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2003

Bryan A. Garner
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Notes on the compilation of a classic dictionary of law. There are essentially five big questions for the writer of a modern law dictionary – and they're pretty much the same questions faced by lexicographers of old, from Rastell to Jacob to Bouvier to Black, and these are discussed.

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English Today , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 33 - 42
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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