KEY-NUMBER SYSTEM

By SovConn | June 5, 2013

key-number system.A legal-research indexing system developed by West Publishing Company (now West) to catalogue American caselaw with headnotes. • In this system, a number designates a point of law, allowing a researcher to find all reported cases addressing a particular point by referring to its number.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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