Lawtalk : the unknown stories behind familiar legal expressions / James E. Clapp ... [et al.].

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Publication details:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.
Edition:
1st edition
Record id:
79668
Author:
Clapp, James E. 1943- (James Edward), 
Series:
Yale Law Library series in legal history and reference.
Subject:
Law -- Dictionaries -- United States.
Contents:
Introduction
Sidebar: Just Knitting
Sidebar: I Give you that orange
Sidebar: Blowing the dust off the black letter books
Sidebar: Shaw and Comstock
Sidebar: Expecting the unexpected
Sidebar: Baron Alderson's remark
Sidebar: Dying wish
Sidebar: Salt Seller
Sidebar: When you really need a good lawyer
Sidebar: Reading the riot Act to a rainmaker
Sidebar: Too serious for God
Sidebar: Standard operating procedure
Sidebar: The legal mind
Sidebar: Not a scholar
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300172461
Phys. description:
xvii, 348 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm