Primary and Secondary Sources Module: Segments


Law Reviews

Secondary Legal / Law Reviews, Combined

Combined Law Reviews contains the full text of documents which are dedicated to the scholarly review of a variety of legal topics and developments and are of importance to students, practitioners and academics.

AUTHOR		This is a 'group' segment which includes the author's name and any biographical information regarding the author. AUTHOR(william PRE/3 jones and professor W/3 harvard)
LENGTH		Provides the approximate number of words contained within the 'TEXT' segment of each document. This segment is arithmetically searchable. LENGTH (>5000)
NAME		Contains the name of the author(s). NAME(william PRE/3 jones)
PUBLICATION		Contains the copyright year and the name of the licensor. The name of the publication will appear centered on the line below. PUBLICATION (XXXXXXXX)
TITLE		Includes the title of the document. TITLE (asbestos)

Treatises

Secondary Legal / Area of Law Treatises / xxx

Each Treatise is listed individually; treatises cannot be searched as a group. A treatise is a written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained. Legal treatises usually focus on a complete area of law, with discussions of particular legal issues within.

HEADING		Contains the title of the document. HEADING (market structure)
SECTION		Contains the section name of the document. SECTION (trustee fails)

American Law Reports (ALRs)

Secondary Legal / American Law Reports (ALR2d, ALR3d, ALR4th, ALR5th, ALRFED& L.Ed.2d)

Each article analyzes and evaluates case law on a particular subject. A description or an overview of a particularCases from all jurisdictions that have ruled on the relevant issue are collected and analyzed in the article.

CITE		Contains the ALR citation. CITE(122 A.L.R. Fed 45)
TITLE		Includes the title of the document. TITLE (asbestos)

Restatements of Law

Secondary Legal / ALI Restatements of Law

Each Restatement is the product of years of discussion, analysis and revision by the members of the American Law Institute. Acknowledged experts in a given subject matter endeavor to capture the common law in a 'statutory' like format. The Restatement on each subject expresses as nearly as possible the rules that courts will apply. These rules govern not only situations that have already arisen in specific cases, but by analogy all rules that would apply in situations that may arise for the first time.

The Annotated Case Citations that are linked to each rule, give analysis and a summary of treatment accorded a Restatement Rule in specific situations. Each Citation is also linked to the full text of the case. Each Restatement subject contains an online functional Table of Contents, Rules, Comments and Notes documents and Annotated Case Citations. Within a subject, the Table of Contents, Rules and Citations are linked together to provide ease of use and better research results.

SUBJECT

Words or phrases describing the subject of the document. SUBJECT(medical /5 malpractice)

Legal Encyclopedias – American Jurisprudence 2nd

Secondary Legal / American Jurisprudence 2nd

The American Jurisprudence 2nd is an encyclopedic text of American law, state, federal,
criminal, civil and procedural. In over 400 modern titles, Am Jur 2d articles collect, examine, and summarize the broad principles of American law and, at the same time, provide direct leads to supporting cases, related annotations, forms, proofs, and trial techniques. The publication is divided alphabetically into topic headings or 'titles'.

HEADING

Hierarchical location of a section within a particular title. HEADING (continuance and criminal cases)

Legal Dictionaries - Ballentine’s Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition

Reference / Law / Ballentine’s Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition

Ballentine's Law Dictionary contains over 40,000 definitions of legal term "based on the actual construction of those terms by courts of last resort, with each case cited to the page on which the definition appears."

ALSO		This segment allows the user to search for available synonyms of their legal term. ALSO(MARRIAGE)
TERM		This segment allows the user to search for available synonyms of their legal term. TERM (NUNC PRO TUNC) or TERM(FORFEITURE)