Noetico Repertum Publishes Nigeria’s First Law Dictionary
History was made on St. Valentine’s day when a Lagos-based law publishing firm (Noetico Repertum) released to the public a book titled “Babalola’s Law Dictionary (Of Judicially Defined Words and Phrases).
The book, a first-of-its-kind reference material, is a seriatim assortment and assemblage of 2130 words and phrases as defined or adopted by the Nigerian Court of Appeal and Supreme Court since 1955.
The book comes at these significant times when short-sighted reliance on foreign factual and legal realities are discouraged in favour of the Nigerian peculiar circumstances which require bespoke approach by the courts vis-a-vis our legal terminologies.
In the words of the editor, Olumide Babalola, the author of casebooks on employment and corporate law and practice; he said, “If wigs and robes are touted as symbols of neo-colonialism and colonial inheritance, how much more our perennial fastening to the definitions under the English law when we can now, for whatever it is worth, boast that, the Nigerian law has come of age to have its own unnecessarily different but peculiar definition of words and phrases.”
It goes without saying that words like “igiogbe” “accidental discharge” “ishakole” and “family property” etc cannot be found in any other dictionaries of the world, except the Nigerian.
More information on the book can be assessed at www.bldictionary.com
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