New Chinese-English Legal Dictionary

Author: Yu Shu Tong
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Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: This "New Chinese-English Legal Dictionary" is a medium-sized reference book primarily focused on recording legal terms in Chinese and their corresponding English expressions, serving as a practical tool for legal professionals, translators, and learners of English and Chinese worldwide. Its key features are practicality and convenience, with definitions striving for accuracy and conciseness. The book carefully selects its vocabulary, featuring 62,000 individual entries and 16,000 non-entry terms collected and curated from legal textbooks, dictionaries, laws, treaties, and new legal works, emphasizing the introduction of Chinese law to the world. The translations are precise, with definitions rooted in legal meaning and carefully chosen from the vast pool of legal English. Alternatively, based on the characteristics of Chinese law, the authors repeatedly deliberated and compared before finalizing the terms. To assist readers, the compilers have extracted example terms and sentences from treaties, classic works, and legal codes for reference, and have distinguished the usage of synonyms for common terms. The appendices at the end provide readers with a concise overview of the legal structures of domestic and international systems.