RECOCN~Z~NC AND READING LEGAL CITATIONS MARYLAND STATE LAW LIBRARY
[Pages:3]RECOCN~Z~NCAND READING LEGALCITATIONS MARYLANSTDATLEAW LIBRARY
BY MICHAELS. MILLER AND STAFF
Michael S.Miller is Director of the M a y b n d Stale Low Libray.
When judges, lawyers, legal assistants and others make statements about the law, or quote directly or paraphrase from a legal publication, they must support each statement with an abbreviated reference (citation) to the cited material. Ordinarily, this "cite" is t o a statute, court opinion, rule of procedure, administrative regulation or some secondaly source of authority, such as a legal encyclopedia or textbook. The general purpose of the legal citation, then, is the same as a footnote in other foms of literature.
The following illustrations of fonns of citations for various Maryland legal publications generally reveal what publication is being cited, where the reader can go to find that information, when the information came into existence and perhaps who wrote or was responsible for the information:
Examples of Nine Maryland Legal Citations 1. Reported (Pubbhed) Cowt Opinion:
Batson u. S h ~ p t i3,25 Md. 634, 602 A.2d 1191 (1932).
Parallel citation:
Reporter abbreviation for Mayland Reporis (decisions from the Maryland. Coun of Appeals)
Batson v. Shif2eff
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Parties to the case
325 Md. 684
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Volume
Page
Volume Reporter abbreviation (~.2d-~rkzllrri
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4 Reponete. Second Series)
602 A.2d
1191 (1992)
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Page Date
2. -+.on oilhe Annotated Code of Maryland:
a. Md. Code (1974, 1791 Repl. Vol.), 12.102 of h e Estates & Tmsts Anicle (Maroon Volume)
Origina!copyrigh date Titlet
(164
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Annotated Code
1991 Repl. VOI.),8 5-102
of the Estates & Trusts Article
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Section Subtide
Subiect matter
of article and
actual atticle
reference
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b. Md. Code (1957, 1987 Repl. Vol., 1991 Cum. Supp.1, Art. 27 $ 426. (Black Volume)
Copyright date of replacement volume
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Md. Code
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