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Legal Research

Subject : law
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1. Legal dictionary - treatise - restatement of law - encyclopedia






2. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






3. 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.






4. An unofficial publication of law that uses the key number system to aid the researcher






5. Legal publisher noted for its extensive use of annotations.






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






7. U.S. Const. amend. XIV - A 1.






8. Supra

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9. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






10. Federal Cases






11. 48 Fed. Reg. 37 -315 (1983).






12. Selected decisions






13. Statutes at Large






14. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






15. 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.






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. Typical case reporter






22. S.Ct.






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






24. Legal encyclopedia published by Lawyers Co-op






25. Compiled by topic






26. Products of West Legal Studies






27. 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'






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






29. Encyclopedia






30. American Digest System






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






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






33. Unofficial U.S. Supreme Court case reporter published by West






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






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






36. Summarize judicial opinions






37. But they are required for home state cases when parallel citations exist






38. 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






39. Summarized statute topics






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






41. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






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






43. Mandatory legal authority that consists of constitutions - statutes - case law - rules of procedure - rules of evidence - administrative rules - court rules - executive orders






44. Opinion issued by one or more judges of the appellate court which disagrees with both the result and the reasoning of the majority opinion. There can be more than one






45. A syllabus of the court






46. Shepard's Citators






47. Arkansas - Kentucky - Missouri - Tennessee - Texas - and Indian Territories






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






49. U.S.






50. Digests