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Virginia Legal Research: Secondary Resources
This lesson is an introduction to researching Virginia law using secondary sources.
This lesson is an introduction to researching Virginia law using secondary sources.
This is an overview of vocabulary used in the lessons on Defenses. You might wish to run it prior to running those lessons.
A contract can contain many different types of promises, made up of both express and implied terms. Express and implied warranty terms are the subject of this lesson. For instance, when parties contract for the sale of goods, they have certain expectations about the goods to be sold. These expectations form the basis of warranties that arise under U.C.C. Article 2. That is, what has the seller agreed to sell?
This lesson is designed to introduce students to Washington's primary law: cases, statutes, and regulations. Although the lesson can be used as a standalone tool, it can also be used to supplement other forms of instruction such as classroom lectures or demonstrations. The questions provide students with ongoing feedback as they learn.
This lesson covers secondary source research for the State of Washington. The lesson introduces students to secondary sources through a hypothetical research problem.
This lesson provides a review of the doctrine of prior appropriation, the water law system that dominates in the western part of the United States.
This lesson provides a review of the five major doctrines that states have employed to decide who has what rights in ground water.
This lesson provides a review of federal reserved rights for students who have covered that doctrine in a Water Law, Natural Resources Law, or Advanced Property course.
While most of the states in the country choose between the water law doctrines of prior appropriation and riparian rights, California applies both. This approach to state water law is called, appropriately, the California system.
This lesson provides an overview of the branches of the U.S. government and how each branch makes law.
This lesson will introduce you to primary legal materials in Wisconsin. You will learn how to locate Wisconsin constitutional provisions, state statutes, case opinions, and regulations using both print and electronic resources.
You may have heard that lawyers are precise. It’s true. In law school, you will spend a lot of time discussing the meaning of a singular word or placement of a comma.
It is also true that sometimes there is more than one way to say something, or multiple phrases may mean essentially the same thing. It can be tricky to hear both that every punctuation mark and word matters, and that you must be nimble enough to recognize when two sources are talking about the same concept in different terms. This lesson is designed to show you some examples both of precision, and of when two things essentially mean the same thing.