Search results for: “list of legal databases”
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List of Legal History Broader Databases
List of Legal History Broader Databases The following databases are comprehensive, covering a wide selection of time periods, and can be a starting point for a more specific database. Primary Sources Databases These databases provide access to full-text materials from the Middle Ages to the present: handwritten manuscripts, early printed treatises, pamphlets, etc. Some of…
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Databases
Databases Definition A database is an organized collection of data, today typically in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality, factual, in a way that supports processes requiring this information. The term database is applied to the data and their […]
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Legal Research Conduction
Conduct Legal Research Step 1: Preliminary Preparation There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Step 2: Issue There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Step […]
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State Legal Research
State Legal Research U.S. State Legal Research The first three topics in this subset highlight key sources in researching the laws of popular states. The last of this set provides general advice about researching the law of any state, including key sources of information for all fifty states (D.C. and U.S. territories are often included…
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History of Legal Treatises
History of Legal Treatises In the United States While the earliest law treatises predate the systematic dissemination of court opinions, by the early twentieth century this form of legal commentary had become an essential tool for lawyers and judges seeking to organize and understand the growing quantity of published case law. That was a period…
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Legal Encyclopedias
Legal encyclopedias provide (generally) a brief, integrated statement of the law. They pull together an enormous body of legal literature, definitions, rules, and practice points derived mainly from case law. Indexes and cross-references are provided. Sections may be written by experts or by […]
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Legal History
Legal History “This abstraction called the Law,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once observed, is “a magic mirror, [wherein] we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!”1 Holmes believed that this “magic mirror” offered historians an opportunity to explore the social choices and moral imperatives of…
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Legal Treatises
Introduction The term treatise, in the Common law systems, usually refers to an in-depth scholarly work on a particular subject area. As law encyclopedias, Restatements of the Law, American Law Reports and law journal articles, legal treatises are […]
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Legal Information Retrieval
Retrieval is based on automatic searching of documents for those embodying certain subject content. Such a system may involve automatic preprocessing of documents to form indexes or other structures to facilitate retrieval, but may not include any human intervention such as manual indexing of […]
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Legal Research Sources
Overview of Legal Research Sources Constitutions There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Codes There is more information about this subjet related to the field of legal research in the legal encyclopedia.Statutory Laws There […]
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Google Scholar Legal Content
Google Scholar Legal Content Note: while many of the following features are not currently available in Google Scholar, we mantain this entry for historical and intellectual grounds. Google Scholar Legal Content Star Paginator See below information about: Google wrote an extension for Google Chrome that adds inline star pagination “Cited by” command, and Inline star…