| Legal Encyclopedias Ideally, legal encyclopedias include the
following:
- A complete and integrated
statement of all applicable law
- Citations to relied-upon
authority (i.e. cases, treatises and restatements)
- Analytical and subject
indexes
- Frequent supplements
An encyclopedia is used as a
starting point in a search for law. The researcher will
find an elementary statement of the applicable law and a
list of cases supporting the statement.
In the Wirtz Labor Library we
have the following encyclopedias:
- Corpus Juris Secondum
(CJS) 2d (West Publishing)
- American Jurisprudence
(Am Jur) 2d.(Lexis Publishing)
There are differences between the
two titles:
| Corpus Juris Secondum |
American Jurispurudence |
| Cites all
cases on point |
Cites
selective cases |
| Indexes
correspond to Digests and West's Key Numbers
system |
Indexes
correspond to American Law Reports |
| References
to West Publications |
References
to LEXIS Products |
| No
almanac function |
Desk Book
with Historical and Legal Facts |
Portions of CJS are
available via WESTLAW. Call 1 800 REF ATTY for
assistance.
Am Jur 2d is available on LEXIS in CONLAW;AMJUR
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