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The present Dictionary contains over 100 000 terms, combinations, equivalents and meanings related to the following branches of jurisprudence: administrative law, constitutional law, state law, international law, civil law, criminal law, copyright law, patent law, maritime law, etc. The Dictionary comprises the basic terminology of the legal system and the court proceedings. Found in the Dictionary are the terms covering some adjacent to law fields: banking, insurance, crediting, stock market, currency operations, public and personal security and safety, information protection, fight against piracy, etc. All the terms for the present Dictionary were chosen from the specialized literature on law: modern dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, monographs, respective periodicals and some other sources. The Dictionary includes typical Latin expressions which one can come across in the law practice. The Dictionary comprises the terms related both to the American and British law. If some terms usable only in Great Britain are included in the Dictionary, they can be found under the label. The terms from the American law literature are labelled. The Dictionary has been compiled to meet the needs of specialists who work in various fields connected with application of law: jurists, businessmen, bank and notarial office employees, lawyers, realtors, court officials, scientific researchers, as well as of students, postgraduates, instructors and professors of the respective universities, translators of the literature on jurisprudence.