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Nominate reports, also known as nominative reports, named reports and private reports, is a legal term from common-law jurisdictions referring to the various published collections of reports of English cases in various courts from the Middle Ages to the 1860s, when law reporting was officially taken over by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, for example Edmund F. Moore's Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council on Appeal from the Supreme and Sudder Dewanny Courts in the East Indies published in London from 1837 to 1873, referred to as Moore's Indian Appeals and cited for example as: Moofti Mohummud Ubdoollah v. Baboo Mootechund 1 M.I.A. 383.
The Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC) is published by the Melbourne University Law Review Association in collaboration with the Melbourne Journal of International Law and seeks to provide the Australian legal community with a standard for citing legal sources. There is no single standard for legal citation in Australia, but the AGLC is the most widely used.
The Criminal Law & Justice Weekly (CL&J), formerly known as Justice of the Peace (JPN) is the oldest legal weekly magazine in England and Wales. It has continuously reported all aspects of the law for the magisterial and criminal courts, since first published in 1837.
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Solicitors Journal is a legal periodical published in the United Kingdom.
This list is a legal bibliography.
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Legal biography is the biography of persons relevant to law. In a preface dated October 1983, A. W. B. Simpson wrote that it was "a rather neglected field". Since then there has been a "resurgence of interest".
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Words and Phrases Legally Defined is a law dictionary. It contains statutory and judicial definitions of words and phrases. It is one of the two "major" dictionaries of its type. Both dictionaries have entries not contained in the other. This dictionary is "useful".
Information Sources in Law is a book.
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References
- Simpson, A W B. Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law. Butterworths. London. 1984. ISBN 0 406 51657 X.
- "Reviews" (1984) 128 Solicitors Journal 278 Google Books
- "Book Reviews" (1985) 149 Local Government Review 579 (July 27) Google Books
- (1990) 154 Justice of the Peace 613 (Issues 27–52, 22 Sept.) Google Books
- "Reviews" (1999) The Law Librarian, vols 30–31, p 138 Google Books
- ↑ Hines, William Donald. English Legal History: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. Garland Publishing Inc. New York and London. 1990. ISBN 0 8240 4299 9. Page 120.
- ↑ Holborn, Guy. Sources of Biographical Information on Past Lawyers. British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. 1999. ISBN 9780950208121. Page 10. Google Books.
- ↑ Barbara Tearle. In R G Logan (editor). Information Sources in Law. Butterworths. London. 1986. ISBN 0 408 11474 6. Page 320.
- ↑ Clinch, Peter. Using a Law Library: A Student's Guide to Legal Research Skills. Second Edition. 2001. Blackstone Press Limited. ISBN 1 84174 029 2. Page 173.
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