Words & Phrases

Understand How the Courts Define Legal Terms

Gain easy access to 60,000+ judicial interpretations of statutory and common law terms with Words & Phrases on Westlaw^® Canada. It covers more than 30,000 terms compiled in The Canadian Abridgment: Words & Phrases Judicially Defined in Canadian Courts and Tribunals, the most comprehensive and trusted collection of its kind.

The success of litigation and transactions can depend on the precision of your terminology. Words & Phrases helps you quickly grasp the meaning of legal terms as judges and experienced lawyers define and apply them.

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