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Massachusetts Law Updates

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Frivolous Lawsuits

2/04/2016 Trial Court Law Libraries

It’s all Greek to me, or, Of Frogs and Mice

2/02/2016 Trial Court Law Libraries

Plain Language and the Law

1/19/2016 Trial Court Law Libraries

Legal Treatises Considered

1/12/2016 Trial Court Law Libraries

Black’s Law Dictionary defines the treatise as “an extended, serious, and usually exhaustive book on a particular subject.”

Massachusetts Legal Literature in a Nutshell: Secondary Source Law

1/07/2016 Trial Court Law Libraries

Secondary source material, information about the law, rather than the law itself, is not so readily accessible online for free.

Massachusetts Legal Literature in a Nutshell: Primary Source Law

1/06/2016 Trial Court Law Libraries

Understanding the structure of how legal literature is organized depends upon understanding how the three branches of government work.

Reexamining Sacco and Vanzetti's Trial

12/29/2015 Trial Court Law Libraries

Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants accused of killing a payroll clerk and his guard in 1920.

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish and the Property Law of Whaling

12/23/2015 Trial Court Law Libraries

On January 3, 1841, Herman Melville set sail on the whaling vessel Acushnet from Fairhaven, Massachusetts.

A Rare Book: The Case of Tilton v. Beecher

12/02/2015 Trial Court Law Libraries

In addition to the most up-to-date law books, serials, and online legal resources, the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries maintain collections of rare and historical books on legal topics.

The Mayflower Compact

11/24/2015 Trial Court Law Libraries

Many of the passengers aboard the Mayflower were members of the Puritan sect who left England to avoid religious persecution.