- Corpus Juris
Secundum (CJS)
REFERENCE KF105 .C62
CATALOG RECORD
- A contemporary statement of American law
as derived from reported cases and legislation.
Published by West Group.
CJS is an encyclopedia of American
law with 4 parts:
Main subject volumes. They are kept up to date with annual pocket
parts
and new volumes as
needed. (101 titles = 161 volumes)
Table of Cases (11 volume s ) .
ANNUAL.
Table of Laws and Rules (1 volume) . ANNUAL.
General Index (5 volume s ) .
ANNUAL.
Purpose:
Unlike Reports and Reporters, encyclopedias are research tools, not
primary or secondary persuasive, and are useful as a survey of how
certain ideas have been applied in case law. Statutes and regulations
and historical interpretations are seldom included. CJS is used
to find key, relevant case law.
Design:
Alphabetic listing of subjects (legal topics) beginning with an outline.
All text is heavily footnoted with relevant court cases (decisions)
since 1938 that support the topic text and include references to West
key numbers.
Use:
Start with the
GENERAL INDEX. Each main
volume has an index in the back which refers to items in that volume
only, thus it is not comprehensive. The GENERAL INDEX
goes into subdivision detail and covers all topics in all
volumes.
Main Volumes/Topics cover about 450 topics. Each topic has a general
overview which is footnoted with federal and state case law.
TABLES are the reverse indexes to
all citations in the main volumes:
Tables of Cases: Every case listed in the main volume with its
subject
location (e.g. 150 C.A.2d. 119 is referenced in
topic
CRIMLAW:1290)
Table of Laws and Rules:
Index based on USCA and UCC
directing user to
appropriate topic (e.g. 15 U.S.C.A. 6307e is
referenced in topic
(PRIZE, 2 n.8.58).
Related Resource:
Wests
Encyclopedia of American Law
REFERENCE KF154 .W47 1998
CATALOG RECORD
Limitations: Includes all 50
states--therefore most cases are not primary for California. Use
California Digest or
Supreme Court Digest for
applicable cases.
April 7, 2003
|
