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"American Jurisprudence, Second Edition, published by West Publishing Company a division of Thomson Reuters, is an encyclopedic text of both procedural and substantive American law, state, federal, criminal, civil and procedural. Consisting of over 430 topic headings (titles), Am Jur 2d articles collect, examine, and summarize the broad principles of American law and, at the same time, provide direct leads to supporting cases, related annotations, forms, proofs, and trial techniques."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary contains over 40,000 definitions of legal term "based on the actual construction of those terms by courts of last resort, with each case cited to the page on which the definition appears."

In this its 40th year in publication, this Sixth Edition offers 14,000 synonyms, legal phrases, and associated concepts, including more than 3,000 newly added full entries. Added are many topical and timely new entries, from "nuclear option" to "false narrative," and from "catch kill" agreements to "judicial activism." Other new and contemporary concepts range from "extreme weather" to "artificial intelligence" and "Constitutional avoidance".

"This dictionary contains the meaning and application of over 5,000 legal terms,phrases and maxims."

"8,500 robust, paragraph-length entries explain more than 11,200 words and phrases"