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| Explained and commented on by means of remarks or notes. |
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| Mark or notation by way of explanation. In annotated codes, decided cases involving the statute are cited following each section of the statute. |
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| A complete statement of the client's case, including the attorney's argument and supporting authorities. |
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| Reference to laws or other cases to support a position that a person desires to establish. |
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| A compilation of the laws pertaining to a given topic or subject title; statue books (may or may not be annotated). |
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| Corpus Juris Secondum (CJS) |
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| The name adopted from Latin of an exhaustive encyclopedia of the law of the country; also, the body of the law. |
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| Series of books that serves as indexes to the reported cases comprising the law; collections or summaries. |
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| Legal reference books, in text form under specific subjects, summarizing all the law pertaining to the subject title, with citations as the source authority for the statement of law. |
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| A reference book containing samples of typed forms used in legal proceedings. |
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| A note of comment prefixed to a court's decision. |
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| Enables the user to open related Web pages by clicking them with the mouse. |
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| A large host computer that stores large databases and allows access to computer users who subscribe to the service. |
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| To connect between or among different machine. |
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| One of the world's largest computer networks, known as a "network of networks." |
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| A computerized legal research database. |
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| Enables the user to open Web pages by clicking them with the mouse. Also referred to as a hypertext or hypertext link. |
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| A system of reports that divides the United States into seven regions; each Reporter covers a particular section of the United States. |
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| A collection of Internet users meeting electronically to discuss a particular topic of interest. |
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| An insert used to update books. The new information is inserted in a pocket in the back cover of the book. |
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| Points of law and their sources that accompany the arguments that the attorney believes support the case or motion. |
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| A judicial decision that serves as a guide for future cases. |
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| Rules established by the executive branch of government to carry the law into effect. |
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| Legal reference books reporting the history of the cses in federal, state, supreme, and appellate courts, detailing the names of the parties, the facts, the opinions of the court, and its decisions or judgments. |
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| Using a reference book called Shepard's Citations to find a case or cases that provide similar citations for a particular topic of the law. |
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| An addition to law books that updates the original and is inserted in the back pocket of the hardbound book. |
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| An author's discussion on a particular subject or law. |
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| A computerized database for legal research that provides the ease of using key numbers. |
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| A vast series of electronic documents called Web Pages or Web Documents that are linked together over the Internet. |
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