1st Edition

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin

By Jon R. Stone Copyright 2025
290 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings. This useful guide offers readers an extensive collection of over 4700 Latin words and phrases, 500 Latin abbreviations, and hundreds of informative legal maxims, principles, and interesting quotations drawn from... Read more

Preface viii References and Sources xiv Pronunciation Guide xvii Latin Legal Words and Phrases 1 Selected Latin Maxims and Legal Principles 168 A Sampling of Latin Quotations Related to Law and Life 204 Latin Abbreviations 211 Miscellanea (Miscellaneous) 227 Some Common Prepositions and Particles 227 Some Common Prefixes 228 The Latin Calendar 229 Roman Numerals 230 English-Latin Index 233

Biography

Jon R. Stone is a best-selling author and Professor of Theory and Research Methods at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of Latin for the Illiterati, More Latin for the Illiterati, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations, and The Routledge Book of World Proverbs, among many others.