Test your basic knowledge |

Legal Research

Subject : law
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. United States Reports






2. Case reports - published by West - that divides the United States into seven geographical regions and reports the decisions of the highest appellate court of each state within that region.






3. Federal Reporter - Third Series (F.3d) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






4. S.Ct.






5. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






6. 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.






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






8. The publication where rules and regulations of administrative agencies are codified






9. Federal Rules Decisions






10. Primary authority






11. Illinois - Indiana - Massachusetts - New York - and Ohio






12. Is used in the first 50 volumes of the United States Reports plus all unofficial reporters of Supreme Court decisions






13. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






14. Result or disposition of the case






15. Decennial Digest






16. 1. the title (chapter) number 2. abbreviation for the Code of Federal Regulation 3. section number symbol and the section number; and 4. year of publication






17. The cited authority contradicts the proposition stated in the memorandum






18. A single-volume text written by a legal scholar in a given topic area






19. The process used to synthesize legal principles from all prior cases with similar facts and similar issues of law to arrive at a decision in a specific case






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






21. As session laws






22. American Digest System






23. Is used in legal memoranda and briefs to indicate the full citation for the case follows at a later point in the memorandum or brief






24. Govern the way in which a defendant is charged - tried - and sentenced for a federal crime






25. 15 U.S.C. A 7 (1988).






26. Ritches Jr. v. Li - 665 F. Supp. 139 (E.D.Pa. 1991).






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






28. Compiled chronologically






29. U.S.






30. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which agrees with the result reached by the majority but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one.






31. The date upon which the decision was rendered






32. 1. full name of author; 2. the word 'Annotation'; 3. title of annotation (underscored or in italics); 4. volume number of A.L.R. series 5. abbreviation for Annotated Law Reports 6. page number where the annotation begins; 7. year of publication






33. United States Reports (U.S.) - Supreme Court Reporter (S.Ct.) - United States Supreme Court Reports - Lawyers' Edition (L.Ed. or L.Ed.2d)






34. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






37. Obiter dictum- comments of the court about minor issues or concerns other than the specific holding - rationale - and decision. Never cited as precedent






38. 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






39. A syllabus of the court






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






41. Anew on the record - the appellate court must base its decision on the record (no new testimony can be received) but may reach an independent factual finding if the facts from the trial court are 'clearly erroneous' based on the record as a whole






42. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






43. An explanatory note






44. F.Supp






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






46. Govern the form and procedure for appeals from the U.S. District Court to the Court of Appeals within the federal system






47. Sometimes called adjective law - it prescribes the manner in which substantive laws must be enforced.






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






49. 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






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