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West American Digest System

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The West American Digest System is a system of identifying points of law from reported cases and organizing them by topic and key number. [1]

22 relations: American Jurisprudence, American Law Reports, California, Case law, Citator, Commonwealth of Nations, Corpus Juris Secundum, Editing, Hierarchy, Law of the United States, Law report, Legal research, National Reporter System, Taxonomy (general), Tree structure, Uniform Commercial Code, United Kingdom, United States courts of appeals, United States district court, West (publisher), Westlaw, Wisconsin.

American Jurisprudence

American Jurisprudence (second edition is cited as Am. Jur. 2d) is an encyclopedia of the United States law, published by West.

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American Law Reports

In American law, the American Law Reports are a resource used by American lawyers to find a variety of sources relating to specific legal rules, doctrines, or principles.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Case law

Case law is a set of past rulings by tribunals that meet their respective jurisdictions' rules to be cited as precedent.

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Citator

In legal research, a citator is a citation index of legal resources, one of the best-known of which in the United States is Shepard's Citations.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Corpus Juris Secundum

Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) (Meaning, "Second Body of the Law") is an encyclopedia of United States law at the federal and state levels.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from the Greek hierarchia, "rule of a high priest", from hierarkhes, "leader of sacred rites") is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) in which the items are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another A hierarchy can link entities either directly or indirectly, and either vertically or diagonally.

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Law of the United States

The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the United States Constitution, the foundation of the federal government of the United States.

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Law report

Law reports or reporters are series of books that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law decided by courts.

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Legal research

Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making.

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National Reporter System

West's National Reporter System (NRS) is a set of law reports for federal courts and appellate state courts in the United States.

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Taxonomy (general)

Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification.

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Tree structure

A tree structure or tree diagram is a way of representing the hierarchical nature of a structure in a graphical form.

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Uniform Commercial Code

The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), first published in 1952, is one of a number of uniform acts that have been put into law with the goal of harmonizing the law of sales and other commercial transactions across the United States of America (U.S.) through UCC adoption by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States courts of appeals

The United States courts of appeals or circuit courts are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system.

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United States district court

The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system.

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West (publisher)

West (also known by its original name, West Publishing) is a business owned by Thomson Reuters that publishes legal, business, and regulatory information in print, and on electronic services such as Westlaw.

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Westlaw

Westlaw is an online legal research service for lawyers and legal professionals in the United States and is a product of Thomson Reuters.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_American_Digest_System

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