Legal Dictionary by Farlex gives you free, instant access to more than 14,500 legal terms and over 13,500 audio pronunciations from authoritative sources trusted by attorneys, including West's Encyclopedia of American Law.
Whether you're an attorney, law student, or looking to better understand complex legal advice, this free legal dictionary app can help you find clear, in-depth definitions of legal terminology right on your iPhone or iPad. Search thousands of definitions, including detailed entries on:
Legal terms and concepts
US law and the Constitution
Important legal cases
Movements
Precedents
Individuals significant to the history of law
+ much more…
FEATURES:
* Search 14,500+ legal terms, including extensive info on US law and the Constitution. Plus offline content.
* Save unlimited bookmarks. Perfect for studying for the LSAT.
* Use native voice search to look up a word just by saying it. (With supported devices)
* See search suggestions as you type and always find what you're looking for.
* View your recent searches.
* Perform advanced searches, including "Starts with," "Ends with," "Contains," and "Wildcard."
* Listen to 13,500+ audio pronunciations for both American and British speakers in online mode.
* Share definitions via social networks, email, and text. (With supported devices)
User-friendly, comprehensive, and authoritative: Legal Dictionary by Farlex is the perfect free legal app for lawyers, legal professionals, law school students, and anyone looking to decipher legal jargon and better understand legal advice. This is NOT a preview or a trial version, and there is no "locked" content. Open the app on your iPhone or iPad and immediately access all content — no subscriptions required!
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Quite frankly, I felt a little strange leaving a review so quick right after using the app for only a while. However, from what I’ve seen so far the app is amazing for the price.Let me be honest. I have been in practice for quite some time now and have collected many hard copy and iPhone legal dictionary apps since my first case. This one seems fabulous for the price.I have always used Black’s law dictionary but I think that is going to change. Blacks law dictionary seems to use their old reputation as justification for charging $50 for an app in which this one does everything it does for $49 less ($.99 for ad free for free with ads).Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? Well, while downloading I thought so too. When I saw this was a free app I figured it was going to be some poorly programmed App that would eventually be deleted from my device. I was very wrong. I intend to use this app more than any of my other legal dictionary apps. Thanks to the developers for making such an amazing App for such a low price. Best of luck to you!
Awesome app! Please consider some modest updates:
People's Squire
I believe I’ll save an official review for later after I’ve more thoroughly tested the app. It’s free, and personally, I would pay the 99 cents for how good it is. There are some items I’d like you to consider:1.With how dense the law is, it would be nice to have a CMD_F/CTRL_F function to find something specific in the text — this would be so useful to have!2.There’s a lot of text, so reading it would be so much better if we had additional options to edit and format the text to our liking. Something like what Apple Books or the Wikipedia app does where you can change the text size, background color, and brightness of the text. As for the body of text we read, some better handling of the margins and formatting would be nice.3.The home of the app is a search bar that you don’t even use. It would be nice to have a dashboard like the Merrimack-Webster app so that you can see all of your favorited items, book-marked pages, and maybe see developments in the news related to items you frequently search. 4.A magazine inside the app would be nice, where you can read latest developments in law.5.Updated graphics and animations.If there’s anything on this list you can consider, it would make the app 100x better than it already is. I can understand that this app may not pull in very much money and so it isn’t cost-effective to implement new features, but please give me that search function so I can find specific words in a document! Great app!
Developer Response
Thank you for your suggestions! Please note that you can search within an article in the app by tapping the magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar, then tapping "Simple search" and "Find on page."
Useful App for Quick References
b.l.41
I’m an assistant prosecutor and I downloaded this app to replace carrying around my Pocket Black’s Law Dictionary for quick references for certain terms. I’ve not had it for too long, so I’m not speaking from an extensive use of this app, but so far, it has been extremely useful to be able to open the app while in the middle of a hearing and be able to advise the judge of the specific definition of any number of terms or phrases without having to fumble around with a hard copy legal dictionary.So far so good!
a huge asset for anyone going to court
Sound guy from the Village
This app is an absolute must for anyone going to court for any reason. Without this app you will be in trouble because the definitions the courts use are far different than the definitions the normal everyday Americans use. For example; If you admit you are a US Citizen you think it means because you’re not a Russian Citizen or French Citizen you were born in the United State of America. What it means to the court is you are an Employee of the Corporate UNITED STATES CORPORATION COMPANY and you have to follow the rules of their employee handbook which are statutes and codes not laws.Being an American is a much better thing to be. You can not be a US Citizen and an American at the same time - it’s impossible. If you’re a US Citizen the Constitution doesn’t apply to you. This app is mandatory if you want to win in court.
Improvements and fixes
Version 6.0
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Information
Seller
Farlex, Inc.
Size
12.7 MB
Category
Reference
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.