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II. Method: 
This general purpose is attained by analyzing all the various main 
operations or ways in which a lawyer is called upon to use these sources; by 
furnishing the student with the needful information about them, and; finally, 
by testing his ability to use each one of the operations separately, and to use 
them as a whole in the performance of standard jobs requiring skill in the use 
of law sources. 
III. General Works of Reference to he Used for Information: 
1. Brief-Making and the Use of Law Books, Cooley. 
2. The Reporters, Wallace. 
3. Handbook of English Law Reports, Fox. 
4. Select Essays in Anglo-American History, Vol; 2. Essays by Holds- 
worth, Veeder. 
5. Publishers’ catalogues, Callaghan, Flood, Jbnes. 
G. Chicago Law Institute Catalogue. 
7. Miscellaneous books on legal bibliography. 
IV. Classification of Materials: 
A. Judicial decisions: private reports for single jurisdictions. 
B. Judicial decisions: official reports. 
C. Judicial decisions: nation-wide reporting systems. 
D. Judicial decisions: digests and other finding apparatus. 
E. State legislation. 
F. Federal legislation. 
G. Treatises. 
H. Encyclopedias. 
7. Government bureaus and commissions. 
J. Periodicals. 
K. Location of books in library. 
V. Analysis of Unit Operations in the Use of Law-Sources: 
Kind of Material Used 
A. Judicial decisions: 
private reports for 
single jurisdictions: 
1. Abbreviations of 
names. 
2. Reporter’s jurisdic- 
tion. 
3. Reporter’s period. 
4. Reporter’s court. 
Operation Involved 
Translate the abbrevia- 
tions of the reporter’s 
name. 
Identify the jurisdiction 
of the reporter. 
Locate, approximately 
(by century), the period 
of the report. 
Locate the court in which 
the reporter reported. 
Example Test for 
Operation 
What name is meant by 
M. & W.? Burr.? Rich.? 
What court was reported 
by Breese, Johnson, Met- 
calf, Wilson, Campbell, 
Dallas? 
In what century or half- 
century were the reports 
of Espinasse, Day, Bay, 
Wallace? 
What court was reported 
by Blackstone, Johnson, 
Cranch, Howard? 
