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The divine right of kings, natural and legal rights, human rights, civil rights, and common law are early unwritten sources of law. Canon law and other forms of religious law form the basis for law derived from religious practices and doctrines or from sacred texts; this source of law is important where there is a state religion.
United States law; List of legal abbreviations; Legal research; Legal research in the United States; For more information on official, unofficial, and authenticated online state laws and regulations, see Matthews & Baish, State-by-State Authentication of Online Legal Resources, American Association of Law Libraries, 2007.
Some sources attempt mainly to state what the law itself says. Some other sources attempt to state the effect of the law, such as a source about social effects or impacts arising from the implementation of a law, a source about a policy recommendation that in someone's opinion should be embodied in a law, a source about the legislative process, or a source on constitutional history.
While many of the basic primary legal sources are available free online (without annotations or other explanatory material), most of finding aids and secondary sources are available by subscription only, through online law databases such as Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline. Due to their expense, these services are out of reach for ...
Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation."
Law dictionaries can be found in many libraries, at free online dictionaries, and from online commercial services. Many law reviews, other legal journals and magazines, and legal newspapers place content on the web. Not all law journals provide their text on the web, and some content may be placed behind a paywall.
A Bibliographical Guide to the Law of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man [1]: 70 A First Book of English Law [1]: 180 A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations [2]: 158 Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice [3]: 67 Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law [1]: 33