Online Court and Law Glossaries

Last week, the beSpacific blog reported on the recent publication of an updated glossary of legal terms encountered in the various U.S. federal courts.

It is hard to find an equivalent freely available overarching Canadian lexicon, but there are a number of resources that can help do the job:

• Courts of Nova Scotia - Glossary of Legal Terms
• Courts of Saskatchewan - Glossary
• Law Courts Education Society (B.C.) - Glossary
• New Brunswick Courts - Glossary of Terms
• Alberta Justice - Common justice system vocabulary
• Ontario Women's Justice Network - Legal Glossary (glossary of criminal court terminology)
• Duhaime's Legal Dictionary
• JURIST Canada - Canadian Legal Dictionaries