Code A code is a subject arrangement of laws and regulations, as opposed to a chronological arrangement. Sources of codified laws and regulations include the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, West s California Code Annotated and the California Code of Regulations. Court Reporter A publication of court opinions , usually for a given jurisdiction or region. A large collection of organized material, usually searchable by various fields . Examples of full-text databases include Lexis and Westlaw.
Most law schools produce at least one law review that is issued once a semester.
Bar associations often also publish law journals. Natural Language A searching method which allows search queries to be entered as a simple statement with minimal use of boolean or proximity operators . Given a string of search terms, a natural language search method employs relevance ranking techniques to retrieve the most relevant results. Nesting In using multiple boolean operators , nesting search terms within paranthesis changes the default order of precedence . By placing paranthesis around search segments, it will be executed first.