LEGAL RESEARCH

FINAL EXAMINATION TOPICS

1. Common Law

2. Statutes

3. Stare decisis

4. Ratio Decidendi

5. Obiter Dictum

6. Corpus Juris Secundum

7. American Jurisprudence 2d

8. Michie”s Jurisprudence for Virginia and West Virginia

9. Analysis method of legal research

10. Words and Phrases

11. Court reporters

12. Headnotes

13. Dissenting opinions

14. Slip opinions

15. Advance sheets

16. Atlantic Reporter

17. Citations

18. Blue Book of Parallel Citations

19. F.R.D.

20. Va. App.

21. Star Pagination

22. Digests

23. Key number system

24. There are 435 of these

25. The decennials

26. Table of key numbers

27. Federal digests

28. The stop-date

29. Codes

30. U.S. Statutes-at-large

31. USCCAN

32. Parallel citation

33. Legislative histories

34. Virginia Code Annotated

35. American Law Reports

36. Annotation history table

37. Shepards Citations

38. Parallel citations in shepards

39. Treatment

40. The superscript figure

41. Legal periodicals

42. Treatises

43. Restatements

44. Model codes and uniform laws

45. Westlaw and Lexis