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| Common law | Am.Jur. (American Jurisprudence);
C.J.S. (Corpus Juris Segundus) | Provides an overview of the law, with trends and key historical cases. | ||||
| Statutory Law | The relevant Code or Statutes, e.g., Florida Statutes, or USCA, United States Code, Annotated. | The written law, as passed by a legislature and signed into law by an executive (governor or President,) then codified (that is, arranged categorically with all other laws.) | ||||
| Please note: | Stat, U.S. Statutes at Large, are NOT statutes, but public laws, that is, the collection of federal laws which have been passed into official law, but are listed in order of passage by Congress, and not yet codified into statutes (despite the publication's title.) The key is that they are arranged by Public Law numbers. | |||||
| Administrative Law/ Regulatory Law | Regulations, such as the FAC (Florida Administrative Code) or CFR (Code of Federal Regulations.) | Laws or regulations promulgated by administrative bodies (e.g., the U.S. Internal Revenue Service promulgates the tax regulations.) | ||||
| Case Law | Various case reporters, such as S2d, Southern Reporter, 2nd Series (which covers state courts from Florida westward through Louisiana,) or F3d, Federal Reporter, 3rd Series (which covers federal Courts of Appeals and selected special courts.). | Case reporters report decisions from cases in appellate courts, where a judge or bench of judges have written decisions concerning the appropriate interpretation of the law as applied in the trial-level courts. Furthermore, these decisions may invalidate a statute, may invalidate part of a statute while upholding the rest, or may uphold a statute as valid law. The upper level of the appellate system (usually referred to as a "supreme court," either of a state or the Supreme Court of the United States) may overturn decisions of lower courts, including administrative courts. | ||||
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