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A Division of the Library

Treatises

Restatements, hornbooks, and reference works of accepted authority.

§ I

Introduction

Scope of the Division

Treatises

124 catalogued

The Division of Treatises holds the secondary works that practitioners and courts consult as authority. Restatements of the Law are catalogued alongside the leading hornbooks in each field.

§ 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

    Restatements of the Law in their successive series

  2. 02

    Hornbooks and treatises of established standing

  3. 03

    Scholarly editions of statutory and procedural materials

§ III

Research Notes

How the division is read.

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

  1. 01

    A treatise is authority for what it surveys; it is read with attention to its edition and date.

  2. 02

    Restatement sections are catalogued with their comments and illustrations.

§ 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.

  1. Restatement (Third) of Trusts § 78 (2007)

    Duty of Loyalty

    American Law Institute · Restatement Section · 2007

    Source · Restatement (Third) of Trusts

    See also: utc-801

§ 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

Commercial Law

The Uniform Commercial Code and the federal law of commercial paper, secured transactions, and sales.

Draws from · Statutes · Regulations · Treatises

Collection

Property

Estates in land, recorded instruments, and the chain of title.

Draws from · Statutes · Judicial Opinions · Treatises

Collection

Trust Administration

The instrument, the governing statute, and the fiduciary duties of the trustee.

Draws from · Statutes · Treatises

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.

§ VIII

Bibliographic Note

How this division is cited.

Treatises are cited by author or title, section, and edition.

Restatement (Third) of Trusts § 78 (2007)
Specimen form · Division of Treatises

§ 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 Treatises 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