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18 Cards in this Set
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Slip Laws |
The way in which statutes are published when they are first enacted |
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Statutes at large, session laws |
At the end of the legislative session statutes are placed in chronological publications known as |
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Codes |
are the arrangement of statutes by subject matter |
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United States Code (U.S.C) |
The official Codification of federal statutes is |
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Unofficial publications |
contain not only the text of the law, but also legislative history and court decision that have interpreted the statutes |
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U.S.C.A. |
United States Code Annotated(West)Federal Law |
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U.S.C.S. |
United States Code Service (Lexis Law Publishing) Federal Law |
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Citation |
The official address for a statute, case, law journal, etc. |
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CitationManuals |
"ALWD Citation Manual" and the "Bluebook a uniform system of citation" |
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552(b)(3)(1994) the date |
date refer to the date the book in which the statute was last published |
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Plain Meaning |
This method uses a literal reading of the statute's language This method fails to resolve some types of statutory ambiguities. Assume the phrase "every wife and mother" is used in a statute. What ambiguities are unresolved. |
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Catch-all phrase such as "and others' |
the courts may assume the legislature intended to limit the statute to matters that are like the ones specifically listed. |
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Canons of construction Two important general rules of statutory interpretation. Courts usually ___________ _____________ criminal statutes and statutes in derogation of the common law.
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Strictly Construe
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Strict Construction |
Courts give the language a narrow interpretation (the opposite is liberal construction) |
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White slate traffic act |
The dissent to caminetti used the statutes title__________ _________ __________ _____________ to support its interpretation |
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Strict Construction |
Courts give the language a narrow interpretation |
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Statutes in derogation of the common law are those that _______ the common law. |
Change |
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Courts give "remedial statutes" a __________ ________________ |
Liberal Construction |
