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English: The Book of the Law as first published in ΘΕΛΗΜΑ (1909). Note that the book is titled "Liber L" rather than its later title "Liber AL". Note that the book is titled "Liber L" rather than its later title "Liber AL".
The Law Librarian. British and Irish Association of Law Libraries. 1983. Volumes 14 - 16. p 13. "Book Reviews" (1977) 8-11 The Law Librarian 14 Google Books "Book Reviews", 14-16 The Law Librarian 130 at 131; "Current Awareness" at p 58 Google Books "Book Reviews" (1998) 29 The Law Librarian 124 (2 June, no 2 of vol 29) Google Books; Donald J Dunn.
The Restatements of the Law is one of the most respected and well-used sources of secondary authority, covering nearly every area of common law. While considered secondary authority (compare to primary authority), the authoritativeness of the Restatements of the Law is evidenced by their acceptance by courts throughout the United States.
The book is loosely structured to follow the life of a criminal case from magistrates' court, through to sentence and appeal.It mixes first-hand accounts of the author as advocate, acting at different times for the prosecution and the defence, with a discussion of how the system in practice fails to deliver justice on a daily basis: "Access to justice, the rule of law, fairness to defendants ...
The Official Lawyer's Handbook is a best-selling satire on law and lawyers written by the lawyer Daniel R. White, and originally published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 1983. The Handbook was adapted and republished in Britain under the name The Queens Counsel Official Lawyers' Handbook , published by the Robson Press, an imprint ...
In contrast to English common law, which consists of enormous tomes of case law, codes in small books are easy to export and easy for judges to apply. However, today there are signs that civil and common law are converging. [64] EU law is codified in treaties, but develops through de facto precedent laid down by the European Court of Justice. [65]
Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice (usually called simply Archbold) is the leading practitioners' book for the practice of criminal law in the Crown Court of England and Wales. It is also referred to and used in several other common law jurisdictions around the world.
The Lawyers' Edition was established by the Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company of Rochester, New York in 1882, and features coverage of Supreme Court decisions going back to 1790. [1] The first Lawyers' Edition series corresponds to the official United States Reports from volume 1 to volume 351 , whereas the second series contains cases ...