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Subject : law
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1. 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






2. A syllabus of the court






3. Products of West Legal Studies






4. Rule of law for which the case is cited as precedent; it is the legal effect of the facts of the case






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






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






7. At the close of each legislative term






8. What federal session laws are codified and published in






9. 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.






10. Official publication






11. 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






12. Ratio decidendi- court's reasoning or basis for it sholding and decision






13. 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






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






15. Infra

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16. Georgia - North Carolina - South Carolina - Virginia - and West Virginia






17. Official case reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court






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






19. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






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






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






22. 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.






23. As session laws






24. Slip opinions collected and published periodically






25. Digests






26. Seven






27. 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






28. 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)






29. Legal encyclopedia published by West






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. Federal Supplement (F. Supp.) - Federal Reporter - Second Series (F.2d) - Federal Reporter (F.) - Federal Cases (F. Cas.) - all unofficial and all published by West






34. Restatement (of law)






35. 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.






36. Case law






37. Summarize judicial opinions






38. Brief summary of facts of case - including its procedural posture






39. Published by Lawyers Co-op






40. United States Reports






41. The Federal Reporter






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






43. S.Ct.






44. All slip laws enacted during a legislative session that are arranged in chronological order according to date of enactment






45. An index






46. Congressional Record will provide the most direct access to the text of the statute






47. 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






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






49. The date upon which the decision was rendered






50. The most comprehensive collection of legal citators.

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