Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage (3rd edition)

摘要

"In 1984, a young man named Brian Garner ... joined my chambers as one of my law clerks [...] [and] at one point he surprised me with a huge file of index cards [...] a cache of linguistic jottings that ended up being enshrined in the book you are now reading" (Foreword by Thomas M. Reavley). This book is the third edition of what was formerly A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, first published in 1987 and revised in 1995. That "huge file of index cards" is now a large-format book of over 1,000 pages. It is not a legal dictionary per se, although some definitions are noted, but more a guide to the correct use of legal words and phrases and thus, hopefully, to greater clarity of written expression.