The Major Law Lexicon Set of 6 Vols

P Ramanatha Aiyar’s Major Law Lexicon, a new title based on the Advanced Law Lexicon is an encyclopaedic work and an essential reference for every law library. The book has been extensively researched, and has over 1,35,000 entries and more than 8,50,000 references. The present edition includes wideranging updates of legislative and judicial definitions from 26 High Courts. It also includes a collection of Latin terms, Legal Maxims, Historical/Archival words, definitions from standard legal textbooks, European legal terms, and Indian regional terms. Judicial definitions are sourced from about a hundred years of Indian case law through National and State law journals. All aspects and areas of law are covered including important current topics under IPRs, Cyber Law, and International Law. We have ensured that this Lexicon accomplishes the true functions of a legal dictionary. It is intended to supply a key to the great works in Indian jurisprudence, and to serve as an aid to the use of those works, and to define and explain the various meanings,which are or have been attached to them in our legal literature.

Key Highlights
- The present encyclopaedic edition incorporates definitions of legal words and phrases covering 135,000 entries and 850,000 references.
- Definitions incorporated are clear and complete, with accurate meanings. References to statutory interpretations of words and phrases will be found under appropriate titles.
- Not only has each word been defined as to its exact meaning but, wherever necessary, the more important synonyms occurring in legal phraseology have been distinguished from allied words and expressions.
- Incorporates numerous words which are current in various States, which have acquired a quasi-technical meaning in law, or which, being frequently used in legal textbooks, revenue records or private documents, have often been referred to by our courts.
- Many terms of public law are defined herein as also those which are commonly used in the sphere of trade, banking and commerce. The main phrases of international, maritime, military and mercantile law and of forensic medicine are also included herein.
- A considerable collection of the terms in other systems of law, especially English and American, have also been included in this Lexicon. As most of our Codes are based on English statutes or decisions, and as English Acts, decisions and textbooks are often referred to, explanatory definitions of terms of words and phrases which are peculiar to such foreign disciplines are included in this Lexicon.
- Another feature of this Lexicon will be found in the illustrative and explanatory quotations from judgments of Indian, English and American Courts.
Judicial interpretation of words having no distinctive legal bearing but interpreted solely in the light of their context or use in a particular context have also been inserted at appropriate places.

Title Page ........................................................................ iii
Tribute to the Author ...................................................... vii
Preface to the Fourth Edition ........................................ ix
Guide to the Lexicon....................................................... xiii
Abbreviations [See Volume 1] ........................................ xvii
Bibliography [See Volume 1] .......................................... xlvii
Alphabetical List of Central Acts [See Volume 1] .......... lvii
Chronological List of Central Acts [See Volume 1] ....... lxxxi-civ

Under the General Editorship of
Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. S. Subramani,
Former Judge, Madras High Court

V. R. Manohar,
Former Advocate General Of Maharashtra, Senior Advocate Supreme Court Of India, Chief Editor All India Reporter, Criminal Law Journal, Labour & Industrial Cases, Taxation Law Report, Air Manual, Ex-Dean, Faculty Of Law, Nagpur University, Ex-Chairman, Bar Council Of Maharashtra

In Collaboration With Editors
Dr. Shakil Ahmad Khan, M.A. (Eng. & Pol. Sc.), M. Ed., L.L.M.
N.K. Anand Advocate, Senior Partner, Anand & Anand, Trade Marks & Patents Attorney,
Justice T. S. Doabia, Former Judge, High Court, Madhya Pradesh
Sudipto Sarkar, M.A., LL.M. (Cantab.) of Gray’s INN. Barrister,
Senior Advocate, High Court, Calcutta
Arvind P. Datar, B.Sc. (Hons), B.L., Grad. CWA, Senior Advocate, High Court, Madras
L.V.V. Iyer, B.Com. (Hons), LL.B., FCS, Hyderabad