A Concise Guide to Legal Research and Writing
Description:
There is an absence of any significant written material applying standard rhetorical principles to the communication of the results of basic legal research. This study attempts to fill that void. It proceeds from a discussion on the nature of legal precedents (stare decisis) to a chapter on legal research tools and techniques which enable one to discover these precedents. It continues with an explanation of what a "legal issue" is and how one discovers it among various facts relevant to a case,…
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Date:
August 1980
Creator:
Duncan, M. P. (Maurice P.)
Partner:
UNT Libraries