Chapter 4-7

Question 1

Primary sources

Answer 1

Constitutions; statutes; rules, regulations, and ordinances; case law

Question 2

Secondary sources

Answer 2

dictionaries, encyclopedias, form books, periodicals, treatises, digest, citators

Question 3

issue

Answer 3

a question that must be decided by a court

Question 4

relevant

Answer 4

relevant evidence relates directly to the issue; a relevant fact is a fact that is tied directly to the client’s legal question

Question 5

primary sources

Answer 5

the resources that provide the actual law

Question 6

secondary sources

Answer 6

tools used to understand the law

Question 7

explanatory facts

Answer 7

these facts help the researcher understand what happened; not relevant, in a legal sense, to the issue

Question 8

unnecessary facts

Answer 8

the factual information in this category; irrelevant to the legal issue

Question 9

bifurcate

Answer 9

to sever from the trial

Question 10

legal encyclopedia

Answer 10

a collection of legal information

Question 11

finding tools

Answer 11

the resources used to locate primary and secondary sources

Question 12

annotation

Answer 12

a brief summary of a statutes or a case

Question 13

form book

Answer 13

a legal resource filled with sample forms and explanations on how and when to use the forms

Question 14

law reviews

Answer 14

a publication containing articles written by judges, professors, and attorneys

Question 15

treatise

Answer 15

a book that reviews a special field of law; a summary of the law on a particular subject; often called a hornbook

Question 16

digest

Answer 16

an index to reported cases, arranges by subject; a short summary of the case is provided

Question 17

case law

Answer 17

a collection of reported cases

Question 18

reporter

Answer 18

a set of published volumes of cases by courts

Question 19

Lexis

Answer 19

a fee-based computer-assisted legal research service provided by LexisNexis

Question 20

Westlaw

Answer 20

a fee-based computer-assisted legal research service provided by Thompson-Reuter West

Question 21

Bloomberg Law

Answer 21

a fee-based computer-assisted legal research service provided by Bloomberg law

Question 22

rules of law

Answer 22

legal principles that are applied to the facts; generally derived from statutes, case law, and the Constitution

Question 23

holding

Answer 23

the legal principle to be taken from the court’s decision

Question 24

precedent

Answer 24

the examples set by the decision of an earlier court for similar cases or similar legal questions that arise in later cases