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






2. An index






3. Legal dictionary - treatise - restatement of law - encyclopedia






4. Decennial Digest






5. 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






6. 22 C.F.R. A 145.6 (1992)






7. An explanatory note






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






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






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






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






12. Statutory law






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






14. 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)






15. The subsequent history of the cited case must be included in the citation






16. 1. volume number of encyclopedia 2. abbreviated name of encyclopedia 3. title of article (underscored or in italics) 4. section symbol and section number within the article; 5. specific page within section; and 6. date of publication






17. 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






18. John Willis - Annotation - Industrial Noise: Promoting an Unsafe Work Enviroment - 76 A.L.R. Fed. 489 (1986).






19. Statutes at Large






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. 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'






24. What federal session laws are codified and published in






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






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






27. Alabama - Florida - Louisiana - and Mississippi






28. Secondary authority






29. 88 C.J.S. Trial A 107 (1980).






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






31. Summarize judicial opinions






32. Typical case reporter






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






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






35. Restatement (of law)






36. If the same case is published in another case reporter - the volume and page number of that reporter is shown






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






38. Summarized statute topics






39. Signal used to indicate page numbers in another reporter






40. The Federal Reporter






41. State and federal






42. Advance sheet published by Commerce Clearing House






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






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






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






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






47. Products of West Legal Studies






48. 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






49. Result or disposition of the case






50. Compiled chronologically







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