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8. GIVEN: 
FIND: 
The citation of a statutory provision; 
The present validity of that statute with reference to 
later legislation. 
Example: Your client in Illinois, an insurance company, 
has a case arising under the California Workmen’s Com- 
pensation, Safety, and Insurance Act. You have a hand- 
book of 1914 giving the California Act of 1913. Find 
the present validity of its text under legislation to date. 
9. GIVEN: 
The terms and citation of a regulation , ruling, or ordi- 
nance of an administrative officer or municipal govern- 
ment; 
FIND: 
The validity of the regulation, etc., as dependent on the 
powers exercised. 
Example: A municipal bond issue of 1915 by the City 
of Dubuque, Iowa, is submitted for your opinion. Locate 
the authentic report of the local referendum affecting 
the debt limit. 
10. GIVEN: 
The terms of a statute, and its citation, in a particular 
jurisdiction; 
FIND: 
For the purpose of comparison, the contemporary statu- 
tory provision on the same point in other jurisdictions. 
Example: The Ohio Workmen’s Compensation Act pro- 
vides that in hearings before the Commission “the tech- 
nical rules of evidence shall not apply.” Find what other 
states have adopted a similar provision. 
11. GIVEN: 
A question of law arising out of a particular state of 
facts, upon which legal advice is to be given as to a 
party’s rights, duties, status, or remedies; 
FIND: 
All the sources of law (excluding obsolete or merely 
historical sources) which bear directly upon that ques- 
tion of law in the jurisdiction concerned. 
Example: Your client, a woman, has been elected mayor 
of a town. The principal point of law is whether a 
woman is eligible to the office of mayor. Collect all 
the sources of law on this point in your state. 
12. GIVEN: 
A proposition of law (assumed to be today valid), de- 
pending on either judicial ruling or statute, or both, 
whose ponor tenor is material to giving advice on the 
case in hand; 
FIND: 
The sources which show the prior tenor of the rule on 
that subject, as far back as may be material. 
Example: Your client claims land in Illinois thru a 
nonresident alien uncle, whose brother came to that 
state in 1850 and died in 1899. A state statute form- 
erly forbade acquisition of land thru a nonresident alien ; 
but that statute was changed or repealed in 1895. Find 
the sources showing the law from 1850 to 1895. 
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