Description

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This invaluable reference book was originally written as an aid for those disadvantaged by the deteriorating standing of Latin in our education system and by its use as legal terminology. Professional and comprehensive, yet lighthearted, it is immensely readable and has assumed a readership far beyond the lawyers for whom it was primarily designed to assist.

About the Author

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John Gray was born in 1938. Educated at Tonbridge School, he read law at Brasenose College, Oxford. Called to the Bar in 1962, he was an Inner Temple major scholar from 1962-5 and practised at the Common Law Bar for over thirty years, sitting as a recorder from 1984 to 1994 when he left the Bar to change direction; to write, attend his garden and indulge a life-long interest in wood. He is married with three grown-up children and lives near Ashford in Kent.

Praise For…

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"A remarkably readable, erudite and . . . witty collection of word, tags, and maxims. A useful guide and entertaining enough to be read cover to cover."  —Times Literary Supplement

"It can be consulted, or even read, with profit by many and with enjoyment by many more."  —Reference Reviews