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Subject : law
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1. Statutes that are collected into a statutory code that are arranged by topic






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






3. Type of law consisting of legislative enactments called statutes at federal level and ordinances at state levels.






4. The appellate court reviews the record for prejudicial legal errors committed in the trial court but gives great deference to the findings of fact; factual findings are generally reversed only when they are 'arbitrary or capricious'






5. (primary law - secondary law - encyclopedia - or other) issued by a private - non-government publisher.






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






7. 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






8. Published by Lawyers Co-op






9. Official publication






10. 1. case name 2. case reporter in which the case is published (include volume number - abbreviation of case reporter - and page where case begins); 3. identity of court issuing the opinion 4. year in which the decision was issued; and 5. subsequent hi






11. Result or disposition of the case






12. 1. volume number of Fed. Reg. 2. abbreviation for Federal Register 3. page number where administrative rule begins; and 4. year of publication






13. An unofficial publication of law that is known for its extensive use of annotations






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






15. 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






16. Extensive selected annotations






17. 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






18. 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






19. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






20. 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.






21. Digest topic






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






23. Statutory law






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






25. Case law






26. A prior case within a particular jurisdiction that has 1. facts and legal issues substantially similar to the facts of the case before the court and 2. it was decided by a majority decision of a higher court of that jurisdiction and 3. the case was r






27. A syllabus of the court






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






29. Selected decisions






30. The West key number system






31. Restatement (of law)






32. What federal session laws are codified and published in






33. Shepard's Citators






34. The cited authority presents helpful background information about the proposition






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






36. Digests






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






38. Avery v. Exxon Co. - 397 U.S. 812 (1991).






39. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






40. 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






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






42. Statutory law






43. Products of West Legal Studies






44. Federal Rules Decisions






45. Statutes at Large






46. Decennial Digest






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






48. When a federal case first decides a case. a single opinion of the court issued without headnotes and without indexing.






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






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