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Key Number System

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Key-number system, means a legal-research indexing system developed by West Publishing Company to Catalogue American case law with headnotes. In this system, a number designates a point of law, allowing a researcher to find all reported cases addressing a particular point by referring to its number, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 873.

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