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Page Contents:
Legal abbreviations |
Case citators |
Dictionaries - law,
Maori and general |
Encyclopedias | Definitions and Acronyms
Encyclopedias | Definitions and Acronyms
Note:
Many of the sources on this page are sourced via subscription database only and require a current University of Waikato login: this is indicated by [UOW] in the text. There is also a small number of free-access websites.
Legal abbreviations
- Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations - search by title or abbreviation
- English reports citations - Lancaster University Library's table of old Reports citations plus the corresponding volume in the English Reports reprint, [KD270.E53]
- LCANZ - Legal Citations of Aotearoa New Zealand - has citations for all major NZ law reports and law journals, and conforms to the citation formats prescribed in the New Zealand Law Style Guide
- Lexis [UOW] includes Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations [KF246.B46 Law QR] and the Manual of Legal Citation
Case citators
- LawCite - part of AustLII, finds citations for international cases. LawCite is not intended as a replacement for commercial databases, but it's very useful when you need to quickly check that the citation you are using for your case is correct, or to see whether it has alternative citations. Free online source.
Dictionaries - law, Maori, general
Law
- Butterworths New Zealand law dictionary [KUQ86.3.M62 Law Lib]
- Collins Dictionary of Law [KD313 .S84 2001 Law QR]
- Dictionary of Conflict Resolution [UOW]
- Dictionary of modern legal usage [KF156.G367 Law QR]; also available via Lexis [UOW]
- Dictionary of Spanish Law [UOW]
- Duhaime's law dictionary - "legal concepts and law terms painstakingly researched and written in plain language"
- Glossary of Legal Terms
- Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
- Oxford Reference Online [UOW] - includes various law quick reference items
- West's Tax Law Dictionary [KF6287 .S65 2004 Law QR]
- Wex - a public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia from LII - the Legal Information Institute
Maori
- English-Maori dictionary [PL6465.Z5N44 Law QR]
- Ngata Dictionary Online
General
- Collins English Dictionary
- Collins English dictionary and thesaurus [PE1625.C65 Law QR]
- Oxford English Dictionary [UOW]
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus [PE1591.R7 1995 Law QR]
- Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus [UOW]
- Roget's thesaurus of English words and phrases [PE1591.R75 Law QR]
- Shorter Oxford English dictionary [PE1625.M985 Law QR]
- WebLaw Thesaurus
Encyclopedias
- Britannica Online
- Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of the European Union
- Laws of New Zealand - LexisNexis NZ [UOW]; multi-volume set [KUQ25.L415 Law Lib]
Definitions and Acronyms
- Commonly used law terms, mostly US ones
- Eurojargon [UOW] - a database of acronyms, abbreviations and other EU-related terms, or you could use the free-access Plain language guide to to Eurojargon from Europa
