Wyoming State Law Library

For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.

This manual upholds a single and consistent system of citation for all forms of legal writing. It contains complete coverage of the citation rules that includes: basic citation ; citation for primary and secondary sources ; citation of electronic sources ; how to incorporate citations into documents ; how to quote material and edit quotes properly ; court-specific citation formats, commonly used abbreviations, and a sample legal memorandum with proper...

"Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present day. This fully revised fourth edition incorporates the latest research to bring this classic work into the twenty-first century. In addition to looking closely at timely issues like race relations, the book covers the changing configurations of commercial law, criminal law, family law, and the law of property....