Encyclopedias are:
a. National only in scope.
b. State specific only.
c. National in scope, but do include select state references.
d. National in scope, but include select state and international references.
Q. #2Since encyclopedias are ideal when employed:
a. As a starting or preliminary source of information.
b. As primary legal materials would be used.
c. Both a and b.
d. Neither a nor b.
Q. #3The natural law school of jurisprudence suggests that the law is based on what is correct.
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Q. #4Legal dictionaries:
a. Contain vague, sloppy, and undisciplined jargon and avoid rigorous definition, leaving room for the law to be interpreted.
b. Serve as a common ground to resolve disputes in terminology and as a repository for the millions of terms, words, and phrases in law that no one person could ever remember.
c. Contain much conceptual confusion, ambiguities in language, and imprecision in the written word.
d. None of the above.
Q. #5The American Law Reports system is an incisive and scholarly review of relevant case law by specified subject matter.
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Q. #6The A.L.R. system selects a case of value upon which it provides significant annotations, references, and practice pointers.
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Q. #7Only one index exists for use with the A.L.R. system, and the only means of updating an A.L.R. article to check validity is by using Shepard's Citations.
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Q. #8The first step in researching the A.L.R. is to locate the A.L.R. General Index for the appropriate series.
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