In the meantime, the following guidelines can be useful in providing direction. If you’re ever in doubt about when and how to abbreviate a word, you can start by consulting a current dictionary or stylebook, as prevailing usage can change. This review will help address those questions.Īn abbreviation is a shortened or contracted form of a word or a phrase (e.g., Mister to Mr.). K85.Those who write in American English may sometimes wonder when to abbreviate a word as well as how to abbreviate it. Kavass, World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations.KF246.B45 2006 at Reference Area & Reference Office Prince, Prince's Dictionary of Legal Citations: Reference Guide for Attorneys, Legal Secretaries, Paralegals and Law Students, 7th ed.Prince, Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations: A Reference Guide for Attorneys, Legal Secretaries, Paralegals, and Law Students, 5th ed.LaTrobe University Library, Legal Abbreviations Search for US, UK, and Australian sourcesįor other legal abbreviations and acronyms, see.Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations for UK, foreign, and international.Browse the latest edition and scroll to Appendix A. Government Manual, Appendix A: Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations.
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Hypertext links have been added for selected court rules,įederal and state agencies, publications, and organizations. Representative, not a comprehensive, list. Legal terms court rules statutes and electronic databases and services. Legal organizations federal and state agencies, boards, commissions, and departments The list includes publications (the full titles are printed in italics) bar associations and Legal Researcher's Deskbook 3d and that are frequently encountered in Washington Listed below are acronyms and abbreviations that are used throughout Adapted from: Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook,
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