NALS CH.8_500801 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Advance Sheets | Paperback pamphlets published weekly which contain reporter cases, including correct volume and page number. |
Case Law | Law established by judicial decisions made in court cases. |
Citators | A set of books used to verify legal authorities and locate additional, more recent cases. |
Decision | The opinion of the court. |
Digests | A detailed index by subject on points of law covered by reported cases. |
Federal Register | Published daily, contains federal administrative rules and regulations. |
Good Law | The concept in jurisprudence that a legal decision is still valid. That is, that a decision has not been overturned or otherwise rendered obsolete. |
Headnotes | Summary of each point of law contained in the court decision of a reported case. |
Legal Encyclopedia | Books that state principles of law supported by footnote references to pertinent cases throughout the U.S. |
Legal Texts | Books that cover specific areas of the law, usually dealing with a single topic. |
Loose-Leaf Service | Loose-leaf replacement pages provided by a publisher in areas of the law where changes can occur at a rapid rate. |
Mandatory Legal Authority | Primary legal authority that the court is required to follow. |
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory | A publication of several volumes that contains names, addresses, specialities, and ratings of lawyers. |
Ordinances | A rule established by authority; may be a municipal statute of a city council regulating such matters as zoning, building, safety, matters of municipality, etc. |
Persuasive Legal Authority | Case law and analysis from other jurisdictions that may shed light on a case in which mandatory legal authority is ambiguous or nonexistent. |
Pocket Parts | Supplements to law books in pamphlet form which are inserted in a pocket inside the back cover of the books to keep them current. |
Primary Legal Authority | Statements of law that are binding upon the courts, government, and individuals. |
Reporters | A person who reports, especially one employed to report news or conduct interviews for newspapers or broadcasts. |
Restatements | The revision and publication of one or more of a company's previous financial statements. |
Secondary Legal Authority | Explain the meaning or applicability of the actual verbatim texts of primary authorities (such as constitutions, statutes, case law, administrative regulations, executive orders, treaties, or similar legal instruments). |
Session Laws | A publication in bound-volume form of all enactments and resolutions of a legislature passed at a particular session, indexed, and numbered usually in chronological order —distinguished from code. |
Shepardizing | Process of consulting Shepard's to see if a case has been overturned, reaffirmed, questioned, or cited by later cases. |
Statutes At Large | A country's statutes in their original version, regardless of later modifications. |
Supremacy Clause | Provision in Article Six, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution that establishes the United States Constitution, federal statutes, and treaties as "the supreme law of the land". |
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