You and the Law

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YOU
and the
LAW
YOU AND THE LAW is the most comprehensive and useful storehouse of legal information for the layman ever published. Its 864 pages give a clear, concise review of the legal principles that are the most important to you and your family, and explains the many legal problems you may encounter in your lifetime.
Reader's Digest editors have long recognized the need for a book that would present, in nontechnical language you can understand, exactly what your rights and obligations are under the law — and how to avoid the pitfalls into which ignorance of the law can lead you and your family.
This is such a book. Its 651 sections discuss the problems that confront the average person during his daily life in clear, understandable terms. Its charts and tables show you what important laws say in your own state or in others. Its glossary explains the meanings of over 1,000 legal terms you may need to know.
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Fülszöveg

YOU
and the
LAW
YOU AND THE LAW is the most comprehensive and useful storehouse of legal information for the layman ever published. Its 864 pages give a clear, concise review of the legal principles that are the most important to you and your family, and explains the many legal problems you may encounter in your lifetime.
Reader's Digest editors have long recognized the need for a book that would present, in nontechnical language you can understand, exactly what your rights and obligations are under the law — and how to avoid the pitfalls into which ignorance of the law can lead you and your family.
This is such a book. Its 651 sections discuss the problems that confront the average person during his daily life in clear, understandable terms. Its charts and tables show you what important laws say in your own state or in others. Its glossary explains the meanings of over 1,000 legal terms you may need to know.
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If you are buying a house or car, making a will, signing a contract, or if you are involved in a more serious legal proceeding like a lawsuit, YOU AND THE LAW will give you important information on your legal rights and duties.
But YOU AND THE LAW is not intended to show you how to be your own lawyer. Rather it arms you with the knowledge you need to avoid legal complications in many commonplace situations. This book points Out some situations where you must have a lawyer, others where it is advisable, and others where you don't need one. It gives you valuable advice on how to find and choose a lawyer if you don't have one and tells you how to work with him to your own best advantage.
If you have ever wondered how a lawsuit is begun, how it's tried and how the successful plaintiff can get his money, you will find the answers here. You will discover the difference between a crime and what lawyers call a tort, and you'll leam the rights that our Constitution guarantees to anyone charged with a crime.
These and literally hundreds of other points of law are explained in the pages of YOU AND THE LAW. And they are easy to find. Numbered sections, contents breakdowns, a comprehensive index and a complete cross-reference system, specially designed for this book, !r^ make it easy for you to find the informa-" | tion you need in a hurry. Just look up the subject you want, and you wiU be directed not gnly to the main entry but to related charts, tables and entries as weU.
YOU AND THE LAW is truly one of the most useful and important books your family library can contain, one that can save you time, trouble and money in countless situations. Vissza