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While drafting a brief or doing research online, view the definition of any word or phrase that appears in Black's Law Dictionary, 8th. This electronic version of Black's lets you link to other definitions, to sections of Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) on Westlaw, and to the Custom Digest search page for case headnotes.
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