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law terms
Question | Answer |
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What are the names of the sources that you can use for legal research? | Primary and Secondary |
Give examples of the primary sources | The Law, Statutory laws, case laws, and the constitution |
Give examples of the secondary sources | Legal periodicals, internet, form books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, treatises & digests |
Name a few legal search engines | West law and lexis |
How do you prepare a research? | understand what you are researching, review all facts available, identify all key facts, Identify legal issues, List words describing your key facts and legal issues develop your question. |
what is stare decisis? | "so it stands" another term for precedent |