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The fourth edition, revised, is now available. 272 pages (twice as long as the third edition), ISBN 0-941991-91-1. Earlier editions have been purchased by law libraries, non-law libraries, and legal researchers around the world.
Find the definitions you need of hundreds of terms used in legal research and bibliography. Coverage includes the judicial, legislative and executive branches of federal, state, and local government. Multiple cross-references are provided to related terms. Each defined term is further explained with additional details and commentary. With clear definitions of both basic and complex terms, the Dictionary is an excellent resource for both beginning and experienced legal researchers, and for any librarian who answers legal research questions.
Among the hundreds of legal terms defined in the dictionary are the following:
- act
- advance sheets
- advisory opinion
- annotated code
- annotation
- blue book
- calendar
- citator
- code
- decision
- digest
- executive order
- headnote
- historical comment
- judicial council
- key number
- later case service
- legislative history
- local law
- memorandum opinion
- model code
- nominative reporter
- parallel citation
- pocket part
- primary authority
- restatement
- secondary authority
- session law
- slip law
- slip opinion
- special statute
- uncodified
- uniform act
The Legal Research Dictionary: from Advance Sheets to Pocket Parts, 4th edition revised is an essential reference title for attorneys, law students, library staff, paralegals, and others. Compiled by Elyse H. Fox. JD, MSLS. Ms. Fox previously practiced law and taught legal research.
PRAISE: Travel guides to the County of Legal Research are numerous and, for devoted scholars, can run to multi-volume treatises on legislative history, legal publishing, and bibliographies spanning centuries of law. Sometimes, however, you just need a map and a good dictionary of useful words and phrases. Elyse Fox’s The Legal Research Dictionary: from Advance Sheets to Pocket Parts, 4th edition revised and her new Law and Legal Research: A Basic Guide might be just the “travel guides” novice legal researchers need. Law school students, public and law librarians, self-represented litigants, business and legal studies students, legal assistants, court clerks, journalists, and indeed anyone who reads the news and wants to know how and where to find official sources of the law would make good use of these legal research reference books.” Laura Orr, JD, MLS, Legal Research and Public Library Consultant.
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