West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Volume 3Contains over four thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and persons significant to U.S. law; and includes sidebars and In Focus articles, tables and indexes, and a variety of reference materials. |
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