Deck 8: Secondary Authority: Periodicals, Restatements, Uniform Laws, Dictionaries, Legislative History, and Other Secondary Sources

Question 1

The Congressional Information Service is available on Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Law review articles may be authored by both law professors and law students.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Commercial publications such as Legal Assistant Today are considered one of the categories of legal periodicals.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Index to Legal Periodicals includes a subject/author index and a table of cases.

Question 5

Restatements are frequently cited by courts and are not accorded a recognition greater than that accorded to treatises.

Question 6

If you want to determine what your state requires to establish a negligence claim, you can consult the state's approved jury instructions.

Question 7

A law review article usually provides an analysis and critique of a legal topic that is the same or less in depth than a treatise.

Question 8

Restatements are available on both Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Question 9

"Model acts" are drafted for those situations where a state does not intend to adopt an entire law but rather intends to modify a uniform law to meet the state's requirements.

Question 10

Words and Phrases includes only terms that have been defined in federal and state court opinions.

Question 11

Uniform laws are available on Westlaw but not on LexisNexis.

Question 12

A uniform law is secondary authority source that may become primary authority if adopted by a state legislature.

Question 13

The Index to Legal Periodicals and the Current Law Index are available on Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Question 14

Legislative history is primary authority.

Question 15

Beginning with the Restatement Second , there are cumulative appendix volumes.

Question 16

Looseleaf services are publications that focus on a specific area of law and include primary authority such as statutes, regulations, and summaries of court and administrative decisions.

Question 17

There is currently a Restatement for security law.

Question 18

Included with each Restatement of the law is a digest.

Question 19

Black's Law Dictionary is available on Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Question 20

One source for obtaining legislative history is the Congressional Information Service .

Question 21

To obtain an in-depth analysis and critique of a specific legal topic refer to a:

A)Restatement of the Law .
B)legal encyclopedia.
C)law review article.
D)digest

Question 22

To obtain the legal meaning of a term used in the law, consult a:

A)Restatement of the Law.
B)law review article.
C)legal dictionary.
D)uniform law.

Question 23

To locate a standardized definition or statement of the law and reasons in support of the definition or statement, refer to:

A)a Restatement of the Law.
B)American Law Reports.
C)Corpus Juris Secundum.
D)a legal dictionary.

Question 24

To locate a model text from which a law may be crafted consult:

A)a treatise.
B)American Law Reports.
C)a legal dictionary.
D)a uniform law.