These are available in the Reference area of Langdell. Which legal dictionary you use is matter of preference. You may also find, however, that after the first few weeks of school, you have only isolated occasions to refer to one. Provide subject access to cases which are published chronologically in case reporters. Without digests, there would be no efficient way of locating all the cases on a particular subject.
Digests provide brief summaries of cases organized by subject.
The West digest system is one major system which can serve to illustrate how a digest is structured. West has organized roughly 400 topics that the West editors believe are the broad topics representing all issues in American case law. These topics range from abandoned property to mental health to zoning. An outline for each topic has been developed which breaks each subject down into its various elements. These may be only a few or may be several hundred.