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Kind of Material Used 
9. Revised statutes 
and session laws: 
Finding apparatus. 
F. Federal Legislation: 
1. Compilations. 
2. Annual laws: 
citation. 
3. Revised statutes 
and annual laws: 
Finding apparatus. 
G. Treatises: 
1. Complete lists. 
2. Handbooks and 
reference books. 
3. Relative status as 
authority. 
4. Comparative use of 
general works. 
Operation Involved 
Find a law given by sub- 
ject only, without date or 
other citation. 
Discriminate the several 
federal law compilations 
or consolidations. 
Discriminate as to au- 
thoritative sources of the 
annual legislation. 
Find a law by subject 
only, without date or 
other citation. 
Use a working list for 
selection of treatises to 
be consulted. 
Discriminate between a 
handy elementary book 
and a complete reference 
work. 
Discriminate between 
standard and ephemeral 
works. 
Use books of different 
authors on same general 
subject for comparison of 
views. 
Example Test for 
Operation 
tutional amendments 
published? 
Where can be located the 
statute giving an action 
for death by wrongful act 
in Illinois, California? 
What period is covered 
by the Federal Revised 
Statutes? The Federal 
Compiled Statutes? How 
find in the latter a cita- 
tion to the former? 
In what form are the 
Federal Annual Laws 
officially published? How 
is a federal statute cited? 
Find and bring the Selec- 
tive Service Act of 1917, 
in official source. Bring it 
in another source. 
Bring a list of the princi- 
pal treatises on the fol- 
lowing subjects, since 
1880: Contracts, Torts, 
Damages. 
Bring an elementary and 
a reference work in the 
following subjects: Sales, 
Damages, Contracts. 
Bring a standard work on 
the following subjects: 
Municipal Corporations, 
Eminent Domain, Patent 
Law. 
Bring the following 
works, with a marker at 
the place of treating the 
same topic: a. Whether a 
release of a contract must 
be under seal, in Page 
and Williston; b. Whether 
a child can recover who 
enters railroad premises 
and is hurt at an un- 
guarded turntable, in Jag- 
gard, Pollock, and 
Thompson. 
