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This guide responds to students' needs to locate primary legal sources (e.g., statutes and court decisions) and to use secondary legal sources (e.g., encyclopedias and treatises) in dealing with legal research problems and writing library research reports. To introduce legal research, a logical and systematic approach is explained by way of a general framework developed as a nine-step research process and shown as "Fig.2. Search Process Flow Chart." To identify the legal precedents to substantiate steps in the research process, the "CORP" rule is discussed: "C" stands for the cause of the action, "O" for the object or thing involved, "R" for restitution, "P" for parties involved. Corbin (Garza School of Law, Texas) recommends taking notes on cards, which may be rearranged to facilitate writing the library research report. Focusing on legal problems encountered in everyday life, the book has chapters on the family, community, business organizations, and concerns of the elderly. Examples of library research reports are detailed in each chapter. Also included are a helpful glossary, a selective legal abbreviations table, state uniform commercial code references, and 158 figures that clarify procedures and concepts. This excellent guide is recommended for law libraries and for college/university library reference collections. -H. Q. Schroyer, Purdue University Libraries
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