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A Division of the Library

Practice Manuals

Procedural handbooks compiled by clerks, judges, and the bar.

§ I

Introduction

Scope of the Division

Practice Manuals

64 catalogued

The Division of Practice Manuals holds the working handbooks of the courts and the bar. The materials are practical in character and catalogued by jurisdiction.

§ II

What Belongs Here

The materials catalogued in this division.

A division collects materials of a single kind. The following are the working classes of record.

  1. 01

    Bench books and judicial reference manuals of the courts of record

  2. 02

    Bar association practice manuals on procedure and evidence

  3. 03

    Registrar and clerk handbooks of long use

§ III

Research Notes

How the division is read.

Notes for the reader on how the materials are catalogued and consulted.

  1. 01

    A practice manual is a working document; it is not a substitute for the rule itself.

  2. 02

    Local practice is catalogued by court and reviewed for the rule it implements.

§ IV

Featured Authorities

A working selection from the division.

The following are representative entries. They have been catalogued and reviewed; the longer record opens by catalogue search.

§ V

Related Collections

Subjects that draw upon this division.

The following Research Collections gather authority from this division alongside materials from elsewhere in the catalogue.

Collection

Civil Procedure

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the controlling decisions that construe them.

Draws from · Court Rules · Judicial Opinions · Practice Manuals

Collection

Research Methods

The hierarchy of authority, the discipline of citation, and the architecture of a research record.

Draws from · Treatises · Practice Manuals

§ VI

Related Publications

Volumes drawn from, or that draw from, this division.

The Society's press supplies, and is supplied by, the working record of the Library.

§ VII

Related Schools

Departments that read this division.

The Schools below draw their reading from this division. Each enters the Library by way of its own bibliography.

§ VIII

Bibliographic Note

How this division is cited.

Practice manuals are cited by title, publisher, and edition.

Moore's Federal Practice § 12.34 (3d ed. 2025)
Specimen form · Division of Practice Manuals

§ IX

Within the Library

Divisions that read alongside this one.

Authority does not respect divisional boundaries. The following divisions are consulted together with this one.

§ X

Authority Discovery

Browse this division by metadata.

These indexes are alternative metadata views of the same canonical authority records. They are not separate collections or archives.

Admission

Read the Practice Manuals division alongside the founding cohort.

Founding Members enter every School of the Academy and every division of the Library. Tuition and dues are not yet open.

The Real Law Society · Est. MMXXVRead Law. Not Lore.Vol. I — Folio I