Legal Dictionaries

Black’s Law Dictionary is the definitive legal resource for lawyers, law students and laypeople alike.

Complete text of the Bouvier Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Edition, 1856. Adapted to the constitution and laws of the United States of America and of the several states of the American Union.

Free online law dictionary search engine for definitions of law terminology & legal terms.

Explanations of over 3000 common legal terms. The easiest-to-read, most user-friendly guide to legal terms. Use it free!

Find plain-English definitions for legal terms by searching Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary.

The Gallagher Law Library has many legal and foreign-language dictionaries. Additional dictionaries are available on LexisNexis and Westlaw (for UW Law School students who have passwords and IDs).

The main source of TheFreeDictionary's legal dictionary is West's Encyclopedia of American Law, which contains more than 4,000 entries detailing terms, concepts, events, movements, cases, and individuals significant to US law.