This is a Sinhala-language reference work on the Latin vocabulary of the law. The text is in Sinhala throughout, with the Latin terms themselves given in the original. Readers who do not read Sinhala will not be able to use it, and international buyers should take that into account before ordering.
Latin terms and maxims remain in daily use in Sri Lankan courts, in pleadings, judgments and textbooks, and a student or practitioner working primarily in Sinhala needs a way into them. That is the gap this book addresses: it sets out Latin legal words and maxims with their meanings for a Sinhala-reading audience. The National Library of Sri Lanka catalogues it under Law — Dictionaries, which indicates the form the material takes.
The author is Theja Poornima Gunasekara, who has also compiled an English–Sinhala legal dictionary. Both titles belong to the same practical project of making legal terminology usable across the languages in which Sri Lankan law is actually studied and practised.
Godage International Publishers is an established Colombo house publishing in Sinhala and English, with a long list in reference, education and the law. Books of this kind are produced for the local market and are not always easy to find outside Sri Lanka.
It will suit law students preparing in Sinhala, candidates for law entrance and professional examinations, court officers, translators handling legal documents between Sinhala and English, and readers building a working Sinhala legal reference shelf.
- Author: Thaja Poornima Gunasekara
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 72
- ISBN: 9789553052759
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