headnotes — n. short summary, outline … English contemporary dictionary
syllabi — Headnotes of reported cases. 20 Am J2d Cts § 77. See headnotes … Ballentine's law dictionary
West American Digest System — is a system of identifying points of law from reported cases and organizing them by topic and key number. The system was developed by West Publishing. This extensive taxonomy makes the process of doing case law legal research less time consuming… … Wikipedia
Headnote — A headnote is a brief summary of a particular point of law that is added to the text of a court decision to aid readers in interpreting the highlights of an opinion. As the term implies, they appear at the beginning of the published… … Wikipedia
Northern Star (chartist newspaper) — For other uses, see Northern Star (disambiguation). Headline from the Northern Star 1838 The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser was a chartist newspaper published in the United Kingdom between 1837 and 1852. Content … Wikipedia
headnote — head·note / hed ˌnōt/ n: a summary prefixed to the report of a decided legal case stating the principles or rulings of the decision and usu. the main facts of the case Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. headnote … Law dictionary
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad — Supreme Court of the United States Argued January 26–29, 18 … Wikipedia
Federal Reporter — The Federal Reporter is a case law reporter in the United States that is published by West Publishing. The third and current Federal Reporter series publishes decisions of the United States courts of appeals and the United States Court of Federal … Wikipedia
Federal Supplement — The Federal Supplement is a case law reporter published by West Publishing in the United States that includes select opinions of the United States district courts. Though West is a private company that does not have a legal monopoly over the… … Wikipedia
Corporate personhood — refers to the question about which subset of rights that are afforded under the law to natural persons should also be afforded to corporations as legal persons. In Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), corporations were recognized as having the… … Wikipedia
