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India Legal Research Guide: Reference Sources

Guide to Indian legal resources available at the C J Koh Law Library.

Legal Dictionaries/Glossaries

Find out the meanings of words and phrases, particularly when used in the local context.

P. Ramanatha Aiyar's the Law Lexicon : with legal maxims, Latin terms and words & phrases
Call number: KB12 Pra
K.J. Aiyar's judicial dictionary
Call number: KB12 Aiy
Black's law dictionary
Call number: KB12 Bla 2009
Stroud's judicial dictionary of words and phrases
Call number: KB12 Str 2012 (vol.1-3)

Digests

Supreme Court yearly digest by Surendra Malik
Call Number: K7172 Mal
Publication Date: 1978 -
The Supreme Court millennium digest by Manohar & Chitaley
Call Number: K7172 SCMD
Publication Date: 2000

Encyclopaedias

Halsbury's Laws of India by general editor, David Hay
Call Number: KB11 Hli
ISBN: 9788180389306
Publication Date: 2013 -
Selected volumes are available online through Lexis Advance Singapore database.