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100
Practice Aid with National Scope; useful for preparing a contract for sale of goods or services, will, trust, or other estate documents.
What is AmJur Legal Forms 2d?
100
Practice Aid with National Scope; Useful for preparing for trials
What is "AmJur Trials"?
100
Way to run a search by the authorizing information of a regulation
What is "authority segment"?
100
Aid in locating a federal regulation, unless you know the regulation is recent, then you should start with the Federal Register.
What is "CFR Index and Finding Aids"?
100
Floor Debate and votes from House/Senate published here
What is a "congressional record"?
200
Piece of legislation in its initial stage of introduction to legislature; Can be helpful in determining legislative intent.
What is a "bill"?
200
Practice Aid; Useful for identifying needed facts and preparing formal discovery requests
What is "Bender's Forms of discovery"?
200
Way to run search by the authorizing information of a regulation
What is "credit field (CR)"?
200
Nearly daily updated electronic version of CFR, more current than West/Lexis; there is no topical search, must know section and title.
What is "Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)"?
200
Publication of Federal Regulations published by GPO every business day Paginated continuously Contains documents produced by agencies, admin departments Publishes notices and guidelines
What is the "Federal Register"?
300
Practice Aid with national Scope; useful for identifying possible causes of actions and elements; useful for identifying needs facts and preparing formal discovery requests.
What is "AmJur Proof of Facts"?
300
Report produced from reconciliation of different versions of same piece of legislation which comes from each house, conference decides upon final version then sends assembled version to president for signing.
What is a "conference report"?
300
Notation on an administrative code that indicates the date through which the code is current.
What is "current through date"?
300
These come from house/senate committee hearings regarding introduced bills, amendments, or resolutions to existing bills (state hearings are available; but are taped and must be requested)
What are "House or Senate transcripts"?
300
Subject arranged publications of regulations in IL. In Print: Code of Illinois Rules Electronic: Illinois General Assembly Website Lexis/West
What is the "Illinois Administrative Code"?
400
Hearing within House/Senate where bill has been assigned that allows committee members to hear from others regarding bills; provides written transcript of experts' testimony and may give insight into issues.
What is a "committee hearing"?
400
Report within House/Senate Committee hearings regarding legislation, discuss purpose and scope of bill. MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT, PURPOSE IS TO EDUCATE REST OF HOUSE/SENATE.
What is a "committee report"?
400
Practice Aid, helpful for preparing petition or complaint to commence an action (will have forms)
What are the "Illinois Civil Practice Forms"?
400
Usually colloquy and useless for legislative intent, unless there is a floor debate where more than one person is discussing useful information State: best source for legislative history because of the availability; may not always be useful.
What is "floor debate"?
400
Useful in helping determine the meaning of the statute Least authoritative of all authorities documents from legislative process produced at each stage requires "retracing" the process as it occurred.
What is "Legislative History"?
500
Subject and agency arranged source of federal regulations, contains all federal rules and regulations currently in force; presidential proclamations and executive orders for preceding year, organized into 50 titles; each title groups agencies together by subject - this means regulations of a given topic may be spread throughout several titles.
What is "Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.)"?
500
Publication of chronological state regulations, Print: Published by the State(1977-present); Electronic: Secretary of State Website (2002-present); Lexis (1996-present); Westlaw(1995-present).
What is the "Illinois Register"?
500
Provided by most bar associations; includes access to newspaper/some sources. Coverage more limited than WL/LN but good primary authority and relied on by many practitioners. Doesn't have digest, headnotes, or annotated codes. Provides citators and current through info but not equivalent to WL/LN.
What is "FastCase"?
500
Set of Books, which include useful practice aids from forms to causes of actions, etc.
What are the "Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education (IICLE Smartbooks)"?
500
Interpretation of legislative history documents used to determine the purpose of the statute; also helps determine how statute should be applies.
What is "Legislative Intent"?