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Legal dictionaries can help you to:
- identify terms relevant to a particular area of law
- understand specific meanings for everyday words
- locate words and phrases defined in legislation or judicially interpreted.
There are a number of Australian legal dictionaries:
- Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary
- Australian Legal Words and Phrases
- Butterworths Concise Australian Legal Dictionary
You can access Australian and international legal dictionaries on the Legal research guide.
Task: Try it yourself!
Question
Look up the definition of 'Escrow' in the Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary. What is the name of the case referred to in the entry?
See Answer
Monarch Petroleum NL v Citco Australia Petroleum Ltd
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