This glossary is adapted from a much more detailed listing found at uscourts.gov, the website of the United States Courts. It's brought to you by the AJC's "Breakdown" podcast. Acquittal: A jury ...

Highly regulated operational sectors often have bountiful, and sometimes conflicting, defined terms that make all the difference in legal matters. The domestic and international transportation and ...

In the spirit of our recent plain English posts, and as requested by readers, we are publishing the following new glossary of Supreme Court terms, which defines the legal terminology we regularly use ...

June 17 (Reuters) - In the law, language matters. The outcome of a case can hinge on the definition of a word in a contract or statute – but who’s responsible for crafting the definitions? Sign up ...

In the colonial period and the Early Republic, laws required members of the public to possess certain arms and accoutrements. This post provides a glossary of all such items that are mentioned in any ...

"Revised and expanded edition"--P. 7. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!363395~!0#focus ...

Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Nitin Jamdar formally launched Niyamapadakosham (legal glossary), a comprehensive compilation of 6,375 legal terms by the High Court, here on Saturday (November ...

UNHCR launched its master glossary of terms in June 2006 to address challenges around the use of different definitions and descriptions for the same concepts, in UNHCR publications. The first edition ...