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Despite recent trends toward writing about legal issues by simplifying legal English for nonlawyers, such language still involves jargon as well as numerous style and linguistic questions that are inadequately addressed by standard style manuals and writing guides. This basic legal dictionary and abridged legal style guide will "allow readers to resolve at a glance the many grammatical and stylistic questions that arise in legal writing." Since publishing the book as A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (1987, 2001; both Oxford), Garner has replaced "uncited illustrative quotations with citable examples"; increased the nu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More