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Law Reports. Reports of judgments of courts on points of law, published for the purpose of being used as precedents (see (REPORTS). Prior to 1865, these reports were all executed and published as mere private speculations, one reporter or pair of reporters being usually, though not always, accredited by the chief judge of each Court. For an account of these reporters and their works, see Handbook of English Law Reports, by Master Fox. In 1865 'The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales' began to publish monthly the reports called The Law Reports. These, though perhaps the best known, have no monopoly-for contemporaneous monthly reports are published under the name of The Law Journal, and contemporaneous weekly reports under the names of The Law Times Reports, The Solicitors' Journal and Weekly Reporter and All England Reports, and The Times Law Reports. All reports made by members of the Bar and published on their responsibility may be cited in argument. For abbrev...
Newspaper
Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Central Government in the Official Gazette. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2 (b)]The essential pre-requisite of a periodical work containing public news or comments on public news, P.S.V. Iyer v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, AIR 1960 Ori 221 (223). (Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947)Any paper to be classified as a newspaper, would contain a report of recent events, Commissioner of Sales Taxi v. Express Printing Press, AIR 1983 Bom 190 (192). [Bombay Sales Act, (51 of 1959), s. 2(3)][s. 81, Indian Evidence Act]The expression 'newspaper' as defined in the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act includes not merely 'public n...
Reporter
Reporter, a person who reports the decisions upon questions of law in the cases adjudged in the several Courts of Law and Equity. See LAW REPORTS....
Digest
Digest, generally a compilation or distribution of a subject into various classes or departments; particularly the Pandects of Justinian in fifty books, containing the opinions and writings of eminent lawyers, digested in a systematical method. (See PANDECTS.) An ordered collection of legal principles, as Mr. Justice Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law. Also an arrangement of the results (usually transcribed from the marginal or head notes of the reporters) of the decisions of the courts upon litigated points of law, as Fisher's Common Law Digest, Mews's Digest of English Case Law, the Law Reports Digest, the Law Journal Quinquennial Digest, English and Empire Digest, etc....
Reports
Reports. 'A report,' says Coke, 'signifyeth a public relation or bringing again to memory of cases judicially argued, debated, resolved, or adjudged in any of the King's Courts of justice, together with such causes and reasons as were delivered by the judges.'-Co. Litt. 293 a. See LAW REPORTS.Also, certificates from the masters of the Courts, when the Courts make reference to them concerning matters of account, etc.; or from committees of either House of Parliament....
Common Law
Common Law [lex communis, Lat.]. 'The phrase 'common law' is used in two very different senses. It is cometimes contrasted with equity; it then denotes the law which, prior to the Judicature Act, was administered in the three ' superior ' Courts of law at Westminster, as distinct from that administered by the Court of Chancery at Lincoln's Inn. At other times it is used in contradistinction to the statute law, and then denotes the unwritten law, whether legal or equitable in its origin, which does not derive its authority from any express declaration of the will of the Legislature. This unwritten law has the same force and effect as the statute law. It depends for its authority upon the recognition given by our Law Courts to principles, customs, and rules of conduct previously existing among the people. This recognition was formerly enshrined in the memory of legal practitioners and suitors in the Courts; it is now recorded in the voluminous series of our law reports which embody the d...
reportable
reportable : required by law to be reported [ income] ...
public records exception
public records exception : an exception to the hearsay rule allowing admission into evidence of records, reports, statements, or data compilations made by public offices or agencies that set forth activities of the office or agency, matters observed pursuant to a duty under law that are required to be reported, or factual findings resulting from an investigation made pursuant to lawful authority that are to be used in civil actions or proceedings or in criminal actions against the government ...
Carucate
Carucate [fr. Carucata terr'], Carvage,or Carve of land, a plough-land of 100 acres, or according to Skene, as much land as may be tilled in a year and a day by one plough, Ken. Glos. 'And one plow land, carucata terr', or a hide of land, hida terr' (which is all one), is not of any certain content, but as much as a plow can by course of husbandry plough in a year.'-Co. Litt. 69 a. This quantity varies in different counties from 60 to 120 acres.Case, includes a suit or any proceeding before a court. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2(1)(a)]Means--(1) A trial. (2) A trial involving some point of law so important as to be published in Law Reports (see that title) for future use as a precedent. (3) A statement of facts and documents, raising a point of law, submitted for the opinion of counsel. See PRECEDENTS. (4) includes a suit or any proceeding before a court. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2 (1) (a)]. (5) The expression 'case' is not limit...
Key-number system
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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