Resources include monolingual and bilingual reference materials for legal terminology developed by courts, court-stakeholders, and academic bodies. The resources listed include materials that are not products of the National Center for State Courts.
Guidelines for the Development of Legal Glossaries
English
- Glossary of Legal Terms (United States Courts)
- Glossary of Commonly Used Court & Justice System Terminology (Consortium for Language Access in the Courts)
Spanish
- Glossary of Legal (and Related) Terms and Courthouse Signs English/Spanish (New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts)
- English-Spanish Glossary (Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts)
- Diccionario del Español Jurídico (Royal Spanish Academy)
- English/Spanish Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
Languages other than Spanish
- Amharic: Legal Terminology in Amharic (United Cultures of Canada)
- Arabic: English/Arabic Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Arabic: Glossary of Legal Terminology English-Arabic (Wisconsin Courts)
- Burmese: English-Burmese Legal Glossary (National Center for State Courts)
- Cantonese: Glossary of Selected Legal Terms English/Cantonese (Washington Courts)
- Chinese: Glossary of Commonly Used Court & Justice System Terminology English-Chinese (Consortium for State Court Interpreter Testing)
- Chuukese: Glossary of Legal Terms for Multnomah County English/Chuukese (Multnomah County, Oregon)
- French: Legal Vocabulary English/French (Maryland AOC)
- German: Glossary of Legal Terminology English-German (Wisconsin Courts)
- Haitian: Glossary of Legal (and Related) Terms and Courthouse Signs English/Haitian (New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts)
- Hindi: English/Hindi Legal Glossary Part I Part II Part III Part IV (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Hmong: English/Hmong Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Hmong: English/Hmong Legal Glossary (Wisconsin Court Interpreter Program)
- Ilokano: Abbreviated Glossary for Ilokano examination (Consortium for State Court Interpreter Testing)
- Korean: Glossary of Legal (and Related) Terms and Courthouse Signs English/Korean (New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts)
- Korean: Glossary of Selected Legal Terms English/Korean (Washington Courts)
- Mien: English/Mien Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Mong: English/Mong Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Polish: Glossary of Legal (and Related) Terms and Courthouse Signs English/Polish (New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts)
- Portuguese: Glossary of Legal (and Related) Terms and Courthouse Signs English/Portuguese (New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts)
- Persian (Farsi): Legal Terminology in Persian (Farsi) (United Cultures of Canada)
- Punjabi: English/Punjabi Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Romanian: English/Romanian Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Russian: English/Russian Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Somali: Glossary for Somali Examination (Minnesota Judicial Branch)
- Tagalog: Legal Terminology in Tagalog (United Cultures of Canada)
- Tigrinya: Legal Teminology Tigrinya-English (United Cultures of Canada)
- Urdu: English/Urdu Legal Glossary Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Vietnamese: English/Vietnamese Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
- Western Armenian: English/Western Armenian Legal Glossary (Superior Court of Sacramento)
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