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Citing legal dictionaries

AGLC4 Part III: Secondary Sources – 7.6 Legal Dictionaries

Rule 7.6 Legal Dictionaries: hard copy (printed) dictionaries

Element Title of Dictionary Edition Number Year Entry Title Definition Number Full stop
Example LexisNexis Concise Australian Legal Dictionary (5th ed, 2009) ‘repudiation’ (def 2) .

 

Rule 7.6 Legal Dictionaries: online dictionaries

Element Title of Dictionary Date of Retrieval Entry Title Definition Number Full stop
Example Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary (online at 1 February 2019) ‘mention’ (def 3) .

 

Melbourne University Law Review Association, Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association, 4th ed, 2018) 118.


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Reference

Australian Law Dictionary (3rd ed, 2017) ‘Abatement’ (def 3).

Parts of the reference

Title r 7.6

Australian Law Dictionary

Publication details r 7.6

(3rd ed, 2017)

Entry title r 7.6

‘Abatement’

Pinpoint r 7.6

(def 3).