AND THEIR USE A MANUAL OF LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, LEGAL RESEARCH AND COMPILED ACCORDING TO THE IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS OF THE INSTRUC- EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENTS OF THE PUBLISHERS THIRD EDITION THE LAWYERS CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY :: ROCHESTER, N. Y. This manual is elementary in character and utilitarian in scope. It makes no pretense of being a complete guide to the literature of the law, but aims only to give the lawyer and law student an idea of the various kinds of law books; to describe, as concisely as possible, those which are in most common use at the present time; and to supply such information about them as to enable one to use them intelligently and effectively. It has been written and compiled to fill a constantly growing need. For a more comprehensive work on the subject, the reader is referred to "Materials and Methods of Legal Research," by Frederick C. Hicks, Professor of Legal Bibliography and Law Librarian of Columbia University. Based on the principle "that the way to learn to use law books is to use them," there are incorporated in Part II. of this volume specimen pages from Ruling Case Law, American Digest System, National Reporter System, American Law Reports Annotated, Lawyers Reports Annotated, United States Supreme Court Reports (L. ed.), Rose's Notes on U. S. Reports, English Ruling Cases, British Ruling Cases, and Shepard's Citations, accompanied by legal problems to be solved with such specimen pages and also with complete sets of the above-mentioned books. As the above-mentioned sets represent different types of legal publications, the incorporated specimen pages will also give instruction in the various mechanical features of law books. The material demonstrating the use and features of the American Digest System and the National Reporter System has been supplied by the West Publishing Company, that of Shepard's Citations by The Frank Shepard Company. No attempt is made in this volume to instruct the reader in the use of Corpus Juris Cyc. as the publishers of that work, The American Law Book Company, preferred not to supply material for this purpose, having issued a special textbook prepared by Dr. Donald J. Kiser which they will be pleased to supply on request. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the instructors of Legal Bibliography and Brief Making for counsel, suggestions, and material, and for their active interest and the help they have given in the making of this new edition. THE PUBLISHERS. "An index is a necessary implement, and no impediment, of a book, except in the same sense wherein the carriages of an army are termed impediments. Without this a large author is but a labyrinth without a clew to direct the reader therein. I confess there is a lazy kind of learning, which is only indical; where scholars (like adders which only bite the horse heels) nibble but at the tables, which are called calces librorum, neglecting the body of the book. But, though the idle deserve no crutches (let not a staff be used by them, but on them), pity it is the weary should be denied the benefit thereof, and industrious scholars prohibited the accommodation of an index, most used by those who most pretend to contemn it." THOMAS FULLER. |