List of Legal Abbreviations

List Of Legal Abbreviations

It is common practice in legal documents to cite to other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter. For example, the Code of Federal Regulations may appear abbreviated as "C.F.R." or just as "CFR."

For abbreviations not found in this list, here are alternate websites to search:

  • Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government (maintained by IUPUI)
  • The Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations (maintained by Cardiff University).

For legal abbreviations not found online, try searching one of the following print sources. These publications are regularly found at law and other libraries.

  • Garner, Brian. Black's Law Dictionary. 9th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Pub. Co., 2009.
  • Harvard Law School. "The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation". 18th ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law Review Association, 2005.
  • McGill Law Journal. Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation. 6th ed. Toronto: Carswell, 2006.
  • Prince, Mary Miles. Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations. 6th ed. Buffalo, NY: Hein, 2009.
  • Trinxet, Salvador. Template:Trinxet Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms Series. A Law Reference Collection, 2011, ISBN: 1624680003 and 978-1-62468-000-7
  • Trinxet, Salvador. Trinxet Reverse Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms, 2011,

ISBN: 1624680011 and 978-1-62468-001-4.

  • Raistrick, Donald. Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations. 3rd ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2008. This book focuses more on British and other foreign/international abbreviations.
  • Kavass, World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations

List Of Common Legal Abbreviations Or Terms

Contents: Top !$@ 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Read more about List Of Legal Abbreviations:  Symbol, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, W, X

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list and/or legal:

    “Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
    —Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    “The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    “I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)