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Subject : law
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1. Result or disposition of the case






2. Ballantine's Law Dictionary 41 (3rd ed. 1969).






3. Federal Rules Decisions






4. Secondary authority that is leading annotated law reporter published by Lawyers Co-op. Distinguishing feature not the cases that it reports - but the extensive editorial commentary that follows each reported case






5. Govern the types of evidence that are admissible in criminal and civil trials and - in some situations - the manner in which the evidence can be presented during trial






6. Compilations of cases and historical matter dealing with various aspects of a code of statute - which contain short summaries of other cases - both for and against






7. Within the federal system - the chronologically published rules and regulations of administrative agencies






8. A syllabus of the court






9. Selected decisions






10. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






11. Supplement volumes or pocket part supplements should be used






12. Health Care Act - Pub. L. 92-117 - 83 Stat. 624 (1987).






13. Published by the American Law Institute - it collects and distills the primary - general rules in a given legal topic area- what the rules are and sometime what the committee believes they ought to be. It also provides explanations of the rules and g






14. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






15. Opinion issued by the majority of the judges of the appellate court; the holding of this opinion may be cited as precedent if all other criteria are met. There is only one in a case






16. United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition






17. Name of the appellant






18. The cited authority directly supports the proposition; other authorities also could have been cited but were not cited to avoid duplication






19. Reported selectively






20. Compiled by topic






21. Case law - or judicial opinion - that articulates common law principles






22. Seven






23. The cited authority states a proposition that is different from the proposition stated by the writer - but the proposition stated in the cited authority is sufficiently similar to lend support to the writer's proposition






24. Law that establishes and defines the basic rights and duties that govern a society. It consists of constitutions - legislative enactments - common law - and certain executive actions.






25. If the same case is published in another case reporter - the volume and page number of that reporter is shown






26. Court's explanation; includes the holding - rationale - and dicta






27. Brief summary of a legal rule discussed in the opinion; headnotes are numbered. key numbers are used in West publications






28. State and federal






29. Iowa - Michigan - Minnesota - Nebraska - North Dakota - South Dakota - and Wisconsin






30. 1. name of the act 2. abbreviation of Public Law and the public law number 3. volume number of the Statutes at Large 4. abbreviation for Statutes at Large 5. page number where the statutes begins; and 6. the year when the statute was passed as law.






31. Connecticut - Delaware - D.C. (Court of Appeals) - Maine - Maryland - New Hampshire - New Jersey - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - and Vermont






32. Reviews the record for errors of law and reaches its own factual finding.






33. The date upon which the decision was rendered






34. A system where every topic and subtopic is assigned its own key number






35. 1. U.S. Constitutional provision and amendments 2. Federal statutes 3. Federal procedural rules 4. Federal cases (U.S. - F.3d - the F.Supp.) 5. State cases (official reporter - then regional reporter) 6. Federal administrative rules and regulations 7






36. Headnotes in the American Digest System are cataloged in this manner: Thing - Action - Relief - Parties






37. Alaska - Arizona - California - Colorado - Hawaii - Idaho - Kansas - Montana - Nevada - New Mexico - Oklahoma - Oregon - Utah - Washington - and Wyoming






38. Virginia Koerselman - Comment - Worker's Compensation - 15 Creighton L. Rev. 415 (1981).






39. 1. volume number of encyclopedia 2. abbreviated name of encyclopedia 3. title of article (underscored or in italics) 4. section symbol and section number within the article; 5. specific page within section; and 6. date of publication






40. The three branches of government that make up each legal system- legislative - judicial and executive






41. Caption - date of decision - parallel citations - headnote or syllabus - statement of facts - opinion - holding - rationale - dicta - decision






42. Statutes that are collected into a statutory code that are arranged by topic






43. Products of West Legal Studies






44. Opinion of the entire court (all judges who heard the case) - as opposed to an opinion written by a specific judge






45. Statutes at Large






46. United States Reports






47. 1. number of the Code title 2. abbreviation for the United States Code 3. section symbol - followed by the number of the Code section; and 4. date of the Code volume in which the most recent version of the section can be found






48. Presidential proclamations






49. A proposed legislative measure






50. A publication of law that is not specifically authorized or sanctioned by an official body but - rather - is compiled by a private publisher i.e. West Publishing Company (West) and Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company (Lawyers Co-op)