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Editorial abstracts/brief summaries of the rules of law or significant facts in a case. They preface each case in the West reporters and on Westlaw.
What are Headnotes?
100
Something that sounds like an agreement between two countries, but actually is an in-depth treatment of a single legal subject.
What is a treatise?
100
These two annotated editions of the United States Code, follow the exact citation pattern as the US Code, and publish laws much sooner than the government.
What are USCA and the USCS?
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Rhymes with Boolean and is the name of the online library catalog at the Vermont Law School where treatises, other books, and electronic database content is listed.
What is Julien?
100
Of the following categories of law, the one that does not exist: Primary-mandatory authority Primary-persuasive authority Secondary-mandatory authority Secondary-persuasive authority
What is secondary-mandatory authority?
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The general name for West's reporter that contain cases grouped together from several states.
What are regional reporters?
200
The name of the resource where federal regulations are first published - before being codified in the Code of Federal Regulations.
What is the Federal Register?
200
The generic name for statutes that provide references to sources of information interpreting, explaining, and otherwise pertaining to laws enacted by a legislative body.
What is an annotated code?
200
The names of the two most commonly used legal encyclopedias.
What are AmJur and CJS?
200
One of the first steps for researching a legal topic which is unfamiliar to you. If neglected you will likely not be able to find materials on point whether searching online or in print resources.
What is defining your legal issue OR generating search terms?
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A word or phrase plus a number (subtopic) given to a specific legal issue in a case. It can be used in any West digest or on Westlaw as an organizing/indexing tool to find either federal or state cases. Sounds like: Stop pick & see 'cumbers
What is topic and key number?
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A source where you will find repealed versions of statutes.
What are session laws? -United States Statutes at Large -United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (USCCAN)
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Interpretation of: P.L. 105-228
What is the 228th public law passed by the 105th Congress?
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An electronic database that specializes in older law review articles; providing them in a pdf format.
What is HeinOnline?
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This source identifies the name and citation formats for the resources associated with each United States jurisdiction.
What is the Bluebook, Table 1?
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Identify three different and distinct research tools to find a case on point.
What is: -Using a digest to locate a topic & key number, headnotes, and cites to case -Entering search terms in Westlaw, Lexis, or other online case law database -Using secondary sources to locate cites to cases, and -Using Citators (Shepards, KeyCite) to locate cites to cases?
400
How are statutes and regulations related?
Statutes "enable" agencies to promulgate regulations.
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The name given to the very first version of a statute after it is formally enacted.
What is a slip law?
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Two reasons to use A.L.R. when conducting legal research.
What are -provides a list of cases for every jurisdiction that has weighed in on an issue -provides descriptive commentary
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This man started the first American "Citator" company in 1891.
Who is Frank Shepard?
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A term is used to characterize cases that are not intended to be used as precedent.
What are unpublished opinions?
500
These are the four main sources of United States law.
What are cases, statutes, regulations, and constitutions?
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The term used to describe the documents and activities relating to a statute before it was formally enacted. Typically, this would include bills, hearings, floor debates, and committee reports.
What is legislative history?
500
A compilation of principles of the common law. Published by the American Law Institute, these sets include: -general principles of the law -commentary and explanations -examples and illustrations of application
What are Restatements?
500
Terminology for law on the local level, such as city ordinances.
What is municipal law?