Moore's Federal Practice (3d ed.)
Moore's Federal Practice
Treatise — Federal Practice · Practice Manual · Current edition
Source · LexisNexis Matthew Bender
IX. Practice ManualsCurrent
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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.
- 01
Bench books and judicial reference manuals of the courts of record
- 02
Bar association practice manuals on procedure and evidence
- 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.
- 01
A practice manual is a working document; it is not a substitute for the rule itself.
- 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.
Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure
Wright & Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure
Treatise — Federal Practice · Practice Manual · Current edition
Source · Thomson Reuters
IX. Practice ManualsCurrent
§ 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)
§ 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.
Jurisdictions
Authority Types
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.
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