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  2. Sources of law - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Principles of Islamic jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the Quran and hadith, the classical theory of Sunni jurisprudence recognizes secondary sources of law: juristic consensus (ijmaʿ) and analogical reasoning . [3] It therefore studies the application and limits of analogy, as well as the value and limits of consensus, along with other methodological principles, some of which are ...

  4. Sources of international law - Wikipedia

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    Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice is generally recognized as a definitive statement of the sources of international law. [2] It requires the Court to apply, among other things, (a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; (b) international custom, as evidence of a general ...

  5. Computer-assisted legal research - Wikipedia

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    Professors of Law rely on the digitization of primary and secondary sources of law when conducting their research and writing the material that they submit for publication. Professional lawyers rely on computer-assisted legal research in order to properly understand the status of the law and so to act effectively in the best interest of their ...

  6. Wikipedia:Primary and secondary source paradoxes in law ...

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    A voice, its recording, the transcript of the recording, a newspaper reporter taking notes from the transcript, and a newspaper report of the notes are all primary sources, but some editors believe that the newspaper report—the least accurate of these sources—is a secondary source and therefore automatically a better source for all purposes ...

  7. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (law) - Wikipedia

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    A law article by a US Supreme Court Justice is probably a reliable source. (Pictured is US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1976.) Information about the law should be based on reliable, third-party published secondary sources. Law sources such as books about laws and articles about laws in magazines and academic journals may be reliable ...

  8. Secondary source - Wikipedia

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    Scipione Amati's History of the Kingdom of Woxu (1615), an example of a secondary source. In scholarship, a secondary source [1] [2] is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere. A secondary source contrasts with a primary, or original, source of the information being discussed. A primary ...

  9. Primary and secondary legislation - Wikipedia

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    In Australian law, primary legislation includes acts of the Commonwealth Parliament and state or territory parliaments.Secondary legislation, formally called legislative instruments, are regulations made according to law by the executive or judiciary or other specified bodies which have the effect of law. [3]