A companion textbook for students of court reporting and practicing court reporters focusing on basic and advanced theories and principles of machine shorthand and speed-building techniques employed by deposition and official court reporters in the verbatim reporting of judicial proceedings.
A comprehensive listing of basic and advanced machine shorthand principles with keyboard drills and exercises on advanced writing techniques.Contents include a presentation of Classic Courtroom Vocabularies: Accident, Medical, Criminal, Domestic Relations, Jury Instructions, Legal Opinion & Argument and Foreign Legal Vocabulary. Appendices include a Dictionary of Courtroom Words and Phrases with computer compatible machine shorthand outlines.
(Currently in update and revision protocal and scheduled for re-release in late 2009.)
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CLASSIC FOREIGN LEGAL VOCABULARY
AB INITIO... AB/NISH/YO
from the beginning
AD INFINITUM... AD/IN/FI/NAOIM
without limit
AD LIBITUM... AD/LIB/TUM
at pleasure
AD VALOREM... AD/VA/LORM
according to the value
ALTER EGO... AULT/E/GO
second self
AMICUS CURIAE... AM/KUS/KUR/YAOI
friend of the Court
BONA FIDE... BOEN/FAOID
in good faith
CARTE BLANCHE... KART/BLAUCH
unsupervised authority
CAVEAT EMPTOR... KAIF/YAT/EMT/TOR
buyer beware
CERTIORARI... SER/SHAER
to be informed of (appellate court)
CHANCERY... KHANS/RI
equity
CHOSE... SHOES
a thing (in action)
COMITY... KOMT
discretionary practice of adopting
CORPUS DELICTI... KORPS/DLIKT/TI
the body of the crime
CORPUS JURIS... KORPS/JURS
body of law; name of law book
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