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TABINAS

BLUE BOOK (19TH ED.) CITATION FORMAT EXAMPLES

BOOKS

Book published by a single publisher:

2 FREDERICK POLLOCK & FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND, THE HISTORY
OF ENGLISH LAW 205-06 (2d ed. 1911).

Book published in editions by multiple publishers:

CHARLES DICKENS, BLEAK HOUSE 49-55 (Norman Page ed., Penguin
Books 1971) (1853).
LAW JOURNAL
Charles A. Reich, The New Property, 73 YALE L.J. 733, 737-38 (1964).
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
American Bar Association, Section on Legal Education and Admissions
to the Bar, Legal Education and Bar Admission Statistics, 19632005, available
at
http://www.abanet.org/legaled/statistics/le_bastats.html (last
visited
Jan. 21, 2010).
Dep't of Veterans Affairs, M21-1, The Adjudiciation Division
2.03 (Michie Veterans Benefits Manual and Related Laws and
Regulations CD-ROM, 2009).
CASE
United States v. MacDonald, 531 F.2d 196, 199-200 (4th cir. 1976),
rev'd, 435 U.S. 850 (1978).
R. v. Lockwood, (1872) 99 Eng. Rep. 379 (K.B.).

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AMJUR
American Jurisprudence (second edition is cited as Am. Jur.
2d) is an encyclopedia of United States law, published by West. It was
originated by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, which was subsequently
acquired by the Thomson Corporation.
CORPUS JURIS SECUNDUM
Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S.) is an encyclopedia of U.S. law.
Its full title is Corpus Juris Secundum: Complete Restatement of the
Entire American Law as Developed by All Reported Cases (1936- ). It
contains an alphabetical arrangement of legal topics as developed by
U.S. federal and state cases.
CJS is an authoritative American legal encyclopedia that provides
a clear statement of each area of law including areas of the law that
are evolving and provides footnoted citations to case law and other
primary sources of law.

BLACK LETTER
A principle of law so notorious and entrenched that it is commonly
known and rarely disputed.
A basic, settled tenet of law, notorious and well known.
In cases, judges often premise their judgments by statements that a
certain principle is "black letter law"; that it is well-known and ought
not to be in dispute.
Judges in some jurisdictions, such as Canada or England, prefer the
expression that a specified principle istrite law, as in "it is trite
law that (a court sitting on judicial review) cannot cannot consider
evidence not available to the decision-maker"
Lloyd Duhaime, Black Letter Law Definition, Duhaime Legal Dictionary (2010)
http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/BlackLetterLawdefinition.htm