Dictionaries/Glossaries
English/English legal online
- Basic Legal Vocabulary
- glossary from the UK Department of Justice
- glossary from the Inner Temple library in .pdf form
- glossary from the UK Department of Justice
- dictionary from law.com
- Wex - dictionary from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School
- dictionary - Findlaw
- Merriam-Webster's law dictionary
- United States Courts glossary of legal terms
English/French legal online dictionaries
- Juriterm - bilingual Canadian dictionary (doesn't work with Safari - try Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape)
- Granddictionaire Canadian dictionary of terminology, including law)
- translation and drafting aids from the European Union, legal plus other subjects - try the IATE link
- Les bases du droit anglais , Bouscaren and Greenstein, is a very general presentation of English law with translations or explanations of important terms
- Dictionnaire de l'anglais économique et juridique et du commerce international, Anne Deysine et al. If you can't stop yourself from buying a dictionary, this one, while not perfect, is good value for money.
- Dictionnaire juridique français-anglais / anglais-français (Harraps/Dalloz) Might be good for English law, but needs improvement on the American side.
- Lexique de l'anglais juridique : français/anglais anglais/français, Kettler. Rather expensive. You need to familiarise yourself with the abreviations to get all the information about the words.
- Dictionnaire des difficultés de l'anglais des contrats. Houbert
- Guide pratique de la traduction juridique : français/anglais. Houbert
Dictionaries - "Do-it-yourself" Not only is the end result better, but your "doing" will help you remember. You can use :
- The English translations of the French codes from the Legifrance site or French cases translated into English
- French constitutional council - texts and case law
- Le greffe du tribunal de commerce de Paris has an English version of their site as does Notaires de France.
- The linguee site offers translation help based on comparing previously translated documents.
General English dictionaries online
- Oxford Dictionaries
- Cambridge Dictionaries (with some online language activities)
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English which has a special LAW topic page
- Merriam-Webster dictionary (with sound)
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