Dictionaries in United Kingdom

English Dictionaries

• Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan, The new Oxford companion to law, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Jonathan Law and Elizabeth A. Martin, A dictionary of law, 7th ed. (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009)
• James E. Penner, The law student’s dictionary, (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008)
  “This is the 13th edition of Mozley and Whitely’s Law dictionary …”
• Herbert Newman Mozley and George Crispe Whitely, Mozley & Whiteley’s law dictionary,
  12th ed. by James E. Penner (London: Butterworths, 2001)
• Percy George Osborn, Osborn’s concise law dictionary, 9th ed. by Sheila Bone (London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2001)
• Stroud’s judicial dictionary of words and phrases, 6th ed. by Daniel Greenberg and Alexandra Millbrook (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2000). Note: Supplements are regularly published.
• Christine Rossini, English as a legal language, 2nd ed. (London: Kluwer Law International, 1998)
• Christine Miskin and Nigel Smith, A Legal thesaurus (Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Legal Information Resources, 1988)
• David M. Walker, The Oxford companion to law (Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1980)
• Earl Jowitt and Clifford Walsh, Jowitt’s Dictionary of English law, 2d ed. by John Burke (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1977-1985), updated by cumulative supplement.
• Giles Jacob, A New law-dictionary. 10th ed. by J. Morgan (London : Printed by W. Strahan and W. Woodfall, 1782)
• John Cowell, The Interpreter, or, booke containing the signification of words : wherein is set foorth the true meaning of all, or the most part of such words and termes, as are mentioned in the lawe writers or statutes of this victorious and renowned Kingdome, requiring any exposition or interpretation … (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970); reprint of (Cambridge: John Legate, 1607)
• John (or William) Rastell, An exposition of certaine difficult and obscure wordes and termes of the lawes of this realme, also known as Termes de la ley, a translation of Expositiones terminorum legum Anglorum, originally composed in French in 1527. (New York : Da Capo Press, 1969); reprint of the 1579 ed. printed by R. Tottell, London.