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  • Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser

    The Business Encyclopedia and Legal Adviser This several-volumes encyclopedia is authored by W. S. M. Knight, Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple. The edition was in London, by Caxton Publishing Company, located in Surrey Street. The first volume had five editions, being the last one (also a revised edition) made in 1913. The subtitle…

  • List of Fraudsters, Impostors and Cases of Fraud

    List of Fraudsters, Impostors and Cases of Fraud Fraud Topics Carcass trade Dissolving cheque Fare-beating Filing a false tax return Fraud Against the Government Fraudulent billing Fraudulent loan Insurance-underwriting racket – Jobbing firm, fraudulent business Just-a-few-dollar-more scam Mail-order fraud Major procurement fraud Marinated money scam Million-dollar dump Money-making machine Phoney money-producing scheme Phony accident claim…

  • List of Murders and Assassins

    List of Murders and Assassins Murders and assassinations Bessinger murder, Sweden 1881 Last Call Killer Overzier murder case Popgun plot, failed assassination of George III of the UK in 1795 Potempa Case, Nazi murder of a communist miner Riddle of Birdhurst Rise, poisoning in Croydon, UK Murder-related Assaulting or Killing a Federal Officer Killer angel…

  • List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries

    List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries List based in the entries covered in Michael Newton’s The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers. A Edward J. Adams Gordon Alcorn (see Verne Sankey) Alvord-Stiles Gang George “Dutch”Anderson Nola Anderson and Frank Ryan Richard Paul Anderson Argentine Liberation Front Art Theft John Ashley Earl Edwin Austin B…

  • Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials

    Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials The Moys Classification Scheme is a system of library classification for legal materials. It was designed by Betty Moys and first published in 1968. It is used primarily in law libraries in many common law jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Schedule The…

  • Legal History Resources

    Legal History Resources Legal History Resources in the Legal encyclopedias Legal history in the International Encyclopedia of Law>: Entries about Legal History in the International Encyclopedia of Law Legal history in the American Encyclopedia of Law: Entries about Legal History in the American Encyclopedia of Law Legal history in the Asian Encyclopedia of Law: Entries…

  • Cataloging for legal materials

    Cataloging of law materials Most libraries use LC (Library of Congress) or DDC ( Dewey Decimal Classification ). Some law libraries use other classifications in conjunction with these. Like a library serving a medical school may not use LCC’s R (Medicine) but rather NLM’s (National Library of Medicine) W and late Qs, legal Canadian libraries…

  • Print Vs. Online Encyclopedias

    Print Vs. Online Encyclopedias for Legal Research In a study conducted with students (some of them with Learning handicaps) which compared subjects’ abilities to use print and online encyclopedias, Dave L. Edyburn found that an online encyclopedia (with menus) was superior to a print encyclopedia at answering factual questions. (1) In their “Performance in Electronic…

  • 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…

  • French Legal Abbreviations

    Law Abbreviations in France List of Legal Abbreviations in France BLD — Bulletin legislatif Dalloz BullCiv — Bulletin des arrets de la cour de cassation, chambres civiles BullCrim — Bulletin des arrets de la cour de cassation, chambres criminelle Cadm — Code administratif Cciv — Code civil Ccom — Code de commerce Cpen — Code…

  • List of Internet Law Online Journals

    List of Internet Law Online Journals Journal title ISSN The computer & Internet lawyer 1531-4944 The Internet journal of law, healthcare and ethics 1528-8250 Internet Journal of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy – CEPMLP, Dundee Internet law researcher 1087-7703 Journal of Internet law 1094-2904 Journal of law, technology & the…

  • Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia

    Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia The Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia comprises introductions to the major legal systems in the world, with coverage ranging from legal Education and the way of professional practice, to the form of government and substantive law. This comprehensive compilation was a result of the efforts of Kenneth Robert Redden, who was a…

  • List of French Reports

      BLD — Bulletin legislatif Dalloz   BullCiv — Bulletin des arrets de la cour de cassation, chambres civiles   BullCrim — Bulletin des arrets de la cour de cassation, chambres criminelle   Cadm — Code administratif   Cciv — Code civil   Ccom — Code de commerce   Cpen — Code penal   Cprciv…

  • List of Legal Dictionaries

    List of Legal Dictionaries Prescription Dictionaries vs. Description Dictionaries In the introduction to A Dictionary of Statutory Interpretation, his author, William D. Popkin, explained that there is a “major dispute about dictionaries … whether the dictionary should be descriptive or prescriptive. This debate is well known in the context of ordinary dictionaries, where the dispute…

  • Legal citation and the Encyclopedia

    Legal Citation and the Encyclopedia See How to Cite the Encyclopedia Citation A Citation may be defined as a reference that identifies a particular case, law review article, book, statute or other resource. For example, in the United States, the citation for John v. Smith may be 820 U.S. 999 (1985). The case appears, therefore,…