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Subject : law
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1. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






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






3. Primary authority






4. Infra

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5. Persuasive legal authority that consists of law from other jurisdictions - legal encyclopedias - American Law Reports - restatements of law - dictionaries - treatises and periodicals






6. Shepard's Citations - statute edition






7. Contains recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court






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






9. Name of the appellant






10. 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






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






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






13. S.Ct.






14. When an official body authorizes and directs the collection and publication of law






15. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






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






17. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






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






19. Digest topic






20. 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






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






22. Extensive selected annotations






23. A syllabus of the court






24. 1. full name of author 2. designation of type of article (required only if written by student); 3. title of article (italicized or underscored) 4. volume number of law review 5. abbreviated name of law review 6. page number where article begins; and






25. 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'






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






27. A bill that has been adopted into a law but has been printed singly rather than as a part of a group of laws






28. Published by West






29. Identifies the court issuing the opinion - the parties - and the docket number assigned to the case






30. Anew - from the beginning - the case is tried in the appellate court as if it had not been tried previously - and witness are allowed to testify.






31. Statutes at Large






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






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






34. W. Weitz - Nocturnal Crimes - 20 Brooklyn L. Rev. 180 (1992).






35. The court's ruling or disposition of the case (whether affirmed - reversed - remanded - or dismissed)






36. 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






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






38. Legal document that carries the most weight and embodies the government's authority to exist and serves as an outline for the exercise of governmental powers.






39. Advance sheet published weekly by the Bureau of National Affairs






40. Official publication






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






42. F.Supp






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






44. 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






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






46. United States Reports






47. Summarize statute topics






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






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






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