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Legal Citations: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Author,

 

 "Title of entry" in

Title of

encyclopedia,

edition

 

 by editor

(publication

information).

Rev Edward

Mewburn

Walker,

"Constitution

of Athens"

 in

Encyclopaedia

Britannica,

 11th ed by

Hugh

Chisholm

(New York:

Encyclopaedia

Britannica, 1911).

 

General Dictionaries

Title, edition,

sub verbo

 

 "keyword".
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed, sub verbo "law".
Black's Law Dictionary, 7th ed, sub verbo "promissory estopel".
  • Sub verbo is Latin for "under the word"

Specialized Dictionaries

Editor or author,

ed,

(if editor)

 Title, edition

(publication

information)

sub

verbo

 "keyword".
F Allard et al, eds,

Private Law

Dictionary of

Obligations and

Bilingual Lexicons,

  

(Cowansville, Que:

Yvon Blais, 2003)

sub

verbo

 "code".
Hubert Reid,  

Dictionnaire de droit

quebecois et canadien

  

(Montreal: Willson &

Lafleur, 1994)

sub

verbo

 "hypotheque".

 

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