legal research ch 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pinpoint citation | also known as a locus, jumpcite, pincite; a citation that refers to an exact page on which to find the info- can be used for a direct quote or a paraphrase |
| parallel citation | a second or third citation for a given case |
| subsequent history | explains what happened in the case after the decision you are citing |
| legal encyclopedias | a secondary source that offer a useful commentary on the law as it is safe and serve as a case finder to locate cases with which one can begin the research process-emphasize case law rather than statutory law and may not reference applicable statutes |
| corpus juris secundum | a multivolume national legal encyclopedia |
| American jurisprudence 2d | a multivolume national legal encyclopedia |
| pocket part | an addition to a lawbook that updates it until a bound supplement or a new edition comes out. It is found inside the back, or occasionally, front cover, secured in a pocket and should always be referred to when doing legal research |
| American Law Reports | a secondary source that offers useful commentary on selected legal issues, publishes selected cases, and serves as a case finder to locate cases with which one can begin the research process-each volume contains the opinions in about 20 articles, all important in that they are important, novel, or interesting legal issues-similar to legal encyclopedias in that they contain textual explanations(called annotations) |
| case | primary source |
| articles | secondary source |
| annotation | a note or commentary intended to explain the meaning of a legal issue(as in ALR) or a statutory passage(as in an annotated code) |
| Attorney General Opinions | Legal opinions of the country's legal representative given at the request of the President or heads of departments within the executive branch and concerning the meaning of laws administered by the executive branch |
| Restatements of the law | books published by the american law institute that tell what the law in a general area is, how it is changing, and what direction the authors think this change should take |
| treatises | a work, often multivolume, generally covering a single field of law and written by one or more legal scholars |
| digests | a federal digest may be used to find relevant cases decided by federal cts,a state digest may be used to find relevant cases decided by courts of the state, and are updated by annual pocket parts and by papaerbound supp. pamphlets |
| key number | sysyem used by west publishing to identify individual points of law and facilitate legal research among sources |
| words and phrases | a multivolume judicial legal dictionary in which defined words and phrases are arranged in alphabetical order, and each word or phrase is followed by a paragraph summary of the word or phrase as used in a case |
| martindale-hubbell law directory | multivolume book that lists many lawyers by location and type of practice |
| formbooks | a collection of legal forms with summaries of relevent law and information on how to use the forms |
| looseleaf services | a format for some law library sources in which information is stored in binders that allow easy insertion of new material and removal of outdated material |
| reporters | sets of books containing published court decisions |
| headnotes | a summary of a case, or of an important legal point made in the cases, placed at the beginning of the case when it is published-a case may have several headnotes |
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