• A headnote is a brief summary of a particular point of law that is added to the text of a court decision to aid readers in locating discussion of a legal...
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  • concerning taxation of railroad properties. The case is most notable for a headnote stating that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment grants...
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    contribution. Thus, law students are warned that the headnote is not part of the decision rendered, since headnotes occasionally contain misinterpretations of the...
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    eighth-century (Nara period) anthology of waka poetry. The kotobagaki (headnote) attached to a group of 32 poems (815–846) in Volume 5 of the collection...
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    cannot be changed. Opinions of the court in each case are prepended with a headnote prepared by the Reporter of Decisions, and any concurring or dissenting...
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    appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II". The...
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  • Circuit) of 15.4.1983". European Patent Office. Retrieved 31 May 2018. Headnote II. The expression 'background art' used in the English text of Rule 27(1)(c)...
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  • List of aerial victories of Heinrich Gontermann Heinrich Gontermann was a German fighter ace during World War I. He was credited with 17 confirmed aerial...
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    Veh. Code, § 22350, and thus become guilty of negligence." (CA Reports Headnote #[2]) "Riggs v. Gasser Motors". Official California Appellate Reports (Report)...
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    evidence pointing to Fayette as the place of organization. For example, a headnote to the earliest known version of chapter XXII of the Book of Commandments...
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  • of Race on Trial in America, p 61 ISBN 978-0-674-03130-2 Kathy Davis. "Headnote to Lydia Maria Child's 'The Quadroons' and 'Slavery's Pleasant Homes' Archived...
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    are Paul Vout KC and Peter Willis SC. Each reported judgment includes a headnote written by an expert reporter (by convention, a practising barrister) which...
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  • material prepared for State Governments by their employees, notably the headnotes, syllabi, annotations, etc. prepared by court reporters, had been held...
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    actually published in that issue without the headnote. Lovecraft later quoted the unpublished headnote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith, "leading some...
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  • Criminal Appeal in Rex v. Davies 29 Times LR 350; 8 Cr App R 211, the headnote of which correctly states that where intent is an ingredient of a crime...
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    includes the full official text of the court's opinion. West editors add headnotes that summarize key principles of law in the cases, and Key Numbers that...
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  • all cases published therein are annotated with headnotes by West attorney-editors, and all those headnotes are then indexed in the West American Digest...
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  • should also be afforded to juridical persons including corporations. A headnote issued by the court reporter in the 1886 Supreme Court case Santa Clara...
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    2018[update], is in its 10th edition. Norton Anthologies offer general headnotes on each author, a general introduction to each period of literature, and...
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    created with the same name and boundaries and was used until 2011. See headnote above. The constituency covers an eastern portion of the City of Edinburgh...
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    have been a low-ranking consort or a lady-in-waiting of an emperor. The headnote to poem #938 in the Kokinshū implies she had some sort of connection to...
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    found to be negligent because of unsafe speed. See CA Reports Official Headnote #[5]) and California Official Reports: Online Opinions "Cannon v. Kemper...
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  • Edition differs from the official reporter in that the editors write headnotes and case summaries, as well as provide annotations to some cases, and...
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  • Harvard University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-674-03130-2. Kathy Davis. "Headnote to Lydia Maria Child's 'The Quadroons' and 'Slavery's Pleasant Homes'....
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    Appeal) only a fraction are selected for reporting. Every report contains a headnote drafted by a practising barrister or solicitor, reviewed by an Assistant...
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    included a statement by Chief Justice Morrison Waite in the decision's headnote: The court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision...
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    Christian Charity" to the New-York Historical Society in 1809. According to a headnote written by Bayard Winthrop, the text was written "[o]n Boarde the Arrabella"...
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    from The Tales of Ise appear in the Kokin Wakashū (905), with similar headnotes, all attributed to Narihira. The combination of these poems, and the similarity...
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    legal authority, while secondary legal sources may include books, the headnotes of case reports, articles, and encyclopedias. Legal writers usually prefer...
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    a one volume abridged and annotated version, with an introduction and headnotes, by Dan Ben-Amos. Indiana University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-253-31158-6....
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