Spinelli's

Check out a fun new database available on the library home page called Spinelli's Law Librarian's Reference Shelf, a resource consisting of more than 100 legal dictionaries, legal bibliographies, serials and more. Search for information by author, title, serials, most cited, legal dictionaries, scholarly articles, or just scroll through the options alphabetically by title. In spite of its title, the site can be useful for students, faculty, staff, and library birds – defined as “one who spends most of his time loafing in a library” in Criminal slang: the vernacular of the underworld lingo, as found on Spinelli’s.
Some of the available references include:
• Dictionary of Intellectual Property , 1954
• Dictionary of Law, consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases, and Maxims, and an Exposition of the Principles of Law, 1996
• Dictionary of Legal Quotations; or, Selected Dicta of English Chancellors and Judges from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, 1904
• English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms That Are Used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences, 1676
• Guide to Minnesota State Documents and Selected Law-Related Materials, 1986
• Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted , 1890
• Landmark Indian Law Cases , 2002
• Law in Shakespeare, 1883
• Law-Dictionary and Glossary, Interpreting Such Difficult and Obsure Words and Terms, as Are Found Either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Laws (3d ed.) , 1717
• Quote It II: A Dictionary of Memorable Legal Quotations , 1989
• Vocabulum; or, the Rogue's Lexicon, 1859

…and many more. Either access the database from home, or, come into the “Knowledge box: a school” (from Criminal Slang) and take a look. From the library’s homepage http://lawlibrary.hamline.edu/ click on A to Z list of databases, click on the letter L and then click on “Spinelli’s” Law Librarians Reference shelf to access the sites.