Unless you are well acquainted with the area of law your research problem falls into, your search for the relevant law will probably begin by consulting a secondary source.
Secondary sources consist of treatises, legal encyclopedias, and digests.
These will lead you to primary sources which consist of constitutions, statutes and case law. Popular Name Treatises Treatises are comprehensive analysis of a selected field of law. Examples of well known treatises are Corbin on Contracts McCormick on Evidence and Prosser on Torts Back to top of page. Popular legal encyclopedias are American Jurisprudence, Cal.Jur.3d and Corpus Juris Secundum. Back to top of page.