LRW (All Accurate)

Annotated Code correct answers - codes with references to related judicial decisions, administrative materials, secondary authorities - given in addition to text of the statutes Unannotated codes correct answers - have just the text of the statutes - usually have brief notes about when each sec...

The Erie Doctrine correct answers Mandates that a federal court resolving a dispute in a diversity case has a constitutional duty to apply the substantive law of the state horizontal stare decisis (TX and Fed) correct answers refers to a court adhering to its own precedent. In Texas, only High Co...

Treatise correct answers Single or multi-volume books offering in-depth treatment of a specific area of law Law Reviews correct answers Useful for their detailed analysis and extensive footnotes, these "academic" volumes publish articles on specialized or developing areas of the law American...

1. sources of law (5) correct answers Case law, constitutions, statutes, administrative regulations, the executive branch Primary sources of law (7) correct answers Actual laws; these include constitutions, statutes, case law/common law (judicial opinions), regulations (executive), executive orde...

Reporter correct answers series of books that collect and print judicial opinions from a court or set of courts Chronological correct answers Organization of a reporter List of court(s) covered and dates Key words index Case name table Mini-digest General court info correct answers Typical...

Primary correct answers Authority that the government creates and publishes; statements of the law itself Primary correct answers Cases, opinions, statutes, regulations, constitutions Trial Court Opinoins correct answers lower court opinions that are usually not published and have no precenden...

What is law? correct answers Regime that order human activity through systematic application of the force of politically organized society, or through social pressure, backed by force, in such a society; the legal system. What is the foundational source of U.S law? correct answers The U.S constit...

KeyCite correct answers An online citator on Westlaw that can trace case history, retrieve secondary sources, categorize legal citations by legal issue, and perform other functions. Shepards correct answers An online citator on LexisNexis that provides a list of all the authorities citing a parti...

Genres correct answers Recurring document type with predictable conventions Conventions correct answers Parts of genre and the ways the audience expects to be written; Office memo, Email memo, Client letters, Complaints, Trial motions and briefs, Appellate briefs, and Indictments Rhetorical tr...