In legal documents, it is common to cite other publications using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations can also be found for common words or legal phrases. These quotes and abbreviations can be found in court decisions, laws, regulations, journal articles, books and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Since publishers have different practices regarding printing abbreviations, abbreviations can be found with or without dots for each letter. For example, the Code of Federal Regulations may be abbreviated to „C.F.R.“ or simply „CFR.“ I defend my case as such and I read many cases. I agree, the comma makes it very difficult to determine whether the quote applies to the previous or next text, especially in sentences composed with many quotes. As a layman, I think that more than one punctuation at a time is always unnecessary; Legal drafting must evolve to be more appropriate, useful and in step with the times. It`s 2020 people, not just lawyers read this stuff, it`s a DIY generation, also helps laymen. See also „View“ above. „vs.“ is used in most scholarly writings in other fields, but „v.“ is used in legal writing only. For abbreviations that aren`t on this list, you can browse other websites here: For legal abbreviations that haven`t been found online, look for one of the following print sources.
These publications are available regularly in legal and other libraries. I recently had a disagreement with a colleague over the use of punctuation before recording quotes in a sentence composed of compound quotes (as in your „Jones lived in Chicago…“ » Example above). While I agree with your lack of commas before the parentheses, my colleague did not, prompting us to email the Bluebook editors to resolve the issue. Use a page, paragraph, or line as a pincite (don`t use p. before a page number). Separate line and page references with colons. Other subdivisions, such as paragraphs, should be identified. According to Bluebook Rule 3.3(c), use more than one paragraph symbol to display multiple paragraphs. Do not put spaces between the two symbols (see examples above). Example: (Elliot Aff. ¶ 7, March 9, 2012) and (Eliott Aff.
¶ 6, 29. March 2012), I would recommend citing the original source of a fact, such as an affidavit. Is there a rule that dictates that the period before the end of parentheses? In other words, why is it „(R. to 8.)“ instead of „(R. to 8)“? If you are citing other court documents in the same case, abbreviate the titles of those documents and quote a paragraph or page from the document. The 19th edition of the Blue Book allows an author to choose whether or not to include the quotation in parentheses. For now, I prefer to use parentheses. (What do readers think of this change in form?) Now that the Bluebook allows the use of Id. for dataset citations, Id. Should it be in parentheses? What is the correct way to refer to the page, paragraph and line of another plea when writing your own plea? As for an objection to a request. Currently, I write in parentheses the page symbol followed by the page number, followed by the paragraph symbol before the paragraph number, followed by a colon with the page lines of that paragraph with a hyphen between the line numbers.
Oh, and if it`s all at the end of a sentence, I`ll put a period after the line numbers in parentheses. Example: The applicant was driving a blue Ford. (Williams Aff. ¶ 7.) Other words in the title of a document may be omitted if the document can be uniquely identified. Does it make a difference if the short form Id. is 34? Parentheses are used to designate material that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence, without parentheses, the sentence would still make sense. Use short forms after the first specification of the long form. My students have just finished their dissertation on summary judgment. We discussed the importance of citing court records in summary judgment. Here are the most important rules of the 19th edition of the Blue Book regarding the citation of documents. „B“ here refers to the rules of the blue pages at the beginning of the Blue Book. The Bluebook now makes it optional to use parentheses around your recording citations.
If you use parentheses around your recording citations, use them with all recording citations, including those that contain Id. For example, the base ID. quote would look like this: (Id.) I don`t think it would make a difference if you change the pincite, so in your example: (Id. to 34.) It is common to use „at“ with citations of appeal files, but the 19th edition does not require an „at“ with other page number references in file citations.
Komentari su zatvoreni.