《元照英美法词典》〔1〕是法律出版社于2003年出版的新书。该词典以“自19世纪以来的英美法词典、百科全书、判例集、法律汇编、各部门法学专著等作为基础资源,并旁及加、澳、新等国法律辞书及其法律与法学专著,综合编纂。”〔2〕其特点主要体现在如下方面:一是编译者的权威性 “Yuan according to the Anglo-American law dictionary” 〔1〕 is the law press published in 2003, a new book. The dictionary “from the 19th century since the Anglo-American law dictionaries, encyclopedias, case series, legal compilation, various departments of law monographs as the basic resources, and next to Canada, Australia and New Zealand and other legal dictionaries and legal and legal monographs, integrated Compilation. ”[2] Its characteristics are mainly reflected in the following aspects: First, the authority of the compiler