Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, Newest Edition, Trade Paperback

A convenient, comprehensive guide to the language of law for everyone from the homeowner to the legal professional.

- Includes more than 10,000 legal words and phrases.

- Updated entries taken from recent events that propelled legal terms into our daily lives:

- From the financial meltdown-credit default swap, subprime, systemic risk, credit rating agency, moral hazard
- From the world of computers and the Internet-cyberbullying, identity fraud, malware, phishing

- From crime-Amber alert, community policing, person of interest

- Includes pronunciations, example phrases and quotations, and frequent supplementary notes.

- Special sections on the judicial system, important legal cases, government agencies, and historic laws.