The book is legal classic has withstood the test of time, since its first publication in 1940, and continues to ably serve the legal profession and everyone associated with it. It contains alphabetical arrangement of terms along with their definitions. A handy, and of course, reliable law lexicon is the requirement of academicians, students as well as legal professionals.

This new edition is up to date and exhaustive in its coverage and scope; comprising Supreme Court judgments, so far as words and phrases defined by the Apex Court, the Latin Maxims occurring its judgments, the words defined by the legal authorities along with the Regional Legal Terms cited in its judgments, are concerned. In addition, statutory definitions from Central Acts, Ordinances and Codes and all the words defined in Rules and Regulations have been appropriately incorporated.