Reports Of Cases Argued And Determined In The Court Of |link| • Top-Rated

A brief summary written by the reporter detailing the legal points decided.

The precursors to the nominate reports were the Year Books , which were short, cryptic notes of arguments in French or Latin. They focused almost exclusively on pleading and procedure, rarely stating a clear "determination" or ratio decidendi. REPORTS OF Cases Argued and Determined IN THE COURT of

For nearly 400 years, the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined existed exclusively as leather-bound, gold-embossed volumes lining the shelves of law libraries. The ritual of "shepardizing" (using citation indexes to ensure a case is still "good law") involved flipping through red paperback supplements. A brief summary written by the reporter detailing

In a Common Law system, the law isn't just what is written in statutes passed by a legislature; it is also what judges say it is. This is the doctrine of stare decisis —to stand by things decided. For nearly 400 years, the Reports of Cases