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|link = [http://www.familylaw.lss.bc.ca/resources/definitions.php family law terms]}}This section offers my own plain-language definitions of common legal words and phrases. | |link = [http://www.familylaw.lss.bc.ca/resources/definitions.php family law terms]}}This section offers my own plain-language definitions of common legal words and phrases. | ||
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For more complete, more | For more complete, more detailed definitions you might want to have a look at ''Black's Law Dictionary'', an American reference book published by Thomson West, or at Barron's ''Canadian Law Dictionary''. Many public libraries will carry one or both of these dictionaries. The websites of the provincial [http://www.bclaws.ca/civix/content/complete/statreg/?xsl=/templates/browse.xsl Queen's Printer] and the [https://familylaw.lss.bc.ca/glossary Legal Services Society] also feature helpful glossaries. | ||
Many of the terms on this page have Latin roots. These terms also make appearances in ''Black's Law Dictionary'' and ''Canadian Law Dictionary', and Wikipedia offers a fairly complete [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_legal_terms list of Latin terms]. | |||
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