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18 Cards in this Set
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What are primary sources of law?
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The resources that provide the actual law; laws are found in statutes,rules, regulations and ordinances, case law and the constitution.
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What are secondary sources of law?
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Tools used to understand the law; secondary resources are dictionaries, encyclopedias, form books, periodicals, treatises, digests, and citators.
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Issue
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The question that must be decided by court
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Relevant Facts
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Key or significant facts
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Explanatory facts
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These facts help the researcher understand what happened. They are not relevant in a legal sense to the issue.
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Unnecessary facts
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The factual information in this category is irrelevant to the legal issue.
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bifurcate
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To sever from the trial; in family law it means that the divorce or dissolution may be granted, but the parties will need to come back to court to adjudicate another issue, for example their property issue.
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annotation
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a brief summary of a statute or a case.
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law review
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a publication containing articles written by judges, professors, and attorneys; it also contains case summaries written by law school students.
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treatise
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A book that reviews a special field of law; a summary of the law on a particular subject; often called a hornbook.
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Case law
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a collection of reported cases
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Reporter
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a set of published volumes of cases by courts
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rules of law
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Legal principles that are applied to the fact; generally derived from statutes, case law and the constitution.
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holding
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The legal principle to be taken from the court's decision.
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IRAC Method
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A method of reading cases looking for issues, rules analysis and conclusion.
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Case brief
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A written document that might contain ta summary of the facts, issues, rules and analysis used by a court and a comparison with a clients facts; a case brief is a summary of a published case.
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Statute
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A legislatively created law; a written enactment.
Federal statutory law is found in the United States Code; state statutory law is found in individual state codes. |
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Pocket Part
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A removable supplement to a volume of statutory law; includes all changes or additions to the material contained in the hardbound volume.
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