Abbreviations of Major Legal Sources
WARNING: Many of these titles have already been moved to the Law Library

I. Florida Materials:

Fla. Jur. 2d   Florida Jurisprudence, 2nd edition
Fla. Laws   Laws of Florida
Fla. Stat. or F.S  Florida Statutes
F.S.A. or Fla. Stat. Ann.  Wests Florida Statutes Annotated
Fla. Dig.  West's Florida Digest
So.   Southern Reporter
So.2d.   Southern Reporter, 2nd series

II. United States Materials in Green Library:

D.C. Code   District of Columbia Code

F.2d  Federal Reporter, 2nd series.

F.3d  Federal Reporter, 3rd series.

F.Supp  Federal Supplement.

I.R.C.   Internal Revenue Code

L.Ed  U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Edition, Lawyers
Cooperative)

L.Ed.2d  U.S. Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Edition,
Annotated (Lawyers Coop.)

S.Ct  Supreme Court Reporter (West)

S.Ct.D.  U.S. Supreme Court Digest

Stat  U.S. Statutes at Large

U.S.   United States Reports (G.P.O.)

U.S.C.   U.S. Code

U.S.C.A.   U.S. Code Annotated

U.S.C.C.A.N   U.S. Code Congressional &  Administrative News

III. General Legal Reference at F.I.U.:

Am Jur 2d American Jurisprudence, 2nd ed.
Black L.D. Black's Law Dictionary (at Ref. desk.)
CJS Corpus Juris Secundum
Words and Phrases  Words and Phrases

IV. Regional Reporters:

ALR American Law Reports

ALR2 " " " . 2nd Series

ALR3 ALR. 3rd Series

ALR4 ALR 4th Series

ALR5 ALR. 5th Series.

ALR Fed American Law Reports, Federal

(For the following titles, check Law School Library):
A.2d Atlantic Reporter, 2nd series
Cal. Rptr. California Reporter
Ill.Dec. Illinois Decisions
N.E.2d North Eastern Reporter, 2nd series
N.W.2d North Western Reporter, 2nd series
N.Y.S.2d  New York Supplement, 2nd series
P.2d Pacific Reporter, 2nd series
S.E.2d South Eastern Reporter, 2nd series
S.W.2d South Western Reporter, 2nd series

The authorative guide to sources by abbreviations is:
      Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations. DESK KF246.B46 1988.

The authoritative guides to abbreviations by source name are: 
     Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Citations. DESK KF246.B45 1988.
     The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. DESK K85.U55 15th ed. 1991.


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