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19
May

Municipal Codes in Texas

Chapter 7 of Researching Texas Law (133-34) provides a brief summary of how to locate municipal codes in several Texas cities.  The best sites for locating these codes are below:
Municode, Online Library
Municode is by far the most thorough source for municipal codes. It contains the full text of codes for dozens of Texas cities, large [...]

29
Jan

The Strange Case of Texas Jurisprudence Pleading and Practice Forms

Rule 18.4 of the Greenbook (11th ed. 2006) uses the following as an example for citing to a form book:
4 Texas Jurisprudence Pleading and Practice Forms § 74:4 (Lawyers Coop. Publ’g ed., 2d ed. 1993).
To say the least, this citation form is fraught with problems, including:
(1) The title page of the books says Texas Jurisprudence [...]

11
Sep

Tutorial: Locating and Citing Texas Session Laws

The tutorial below provides instruction about how to locate an older statute that has been repealed and codified in one of the Texas subject-matter codes. For this question, assume the researcher is trying to locate and cite to a statute as it appeared in 1986. The statute that appeared in Vernon’s Civil Statutes [...]

29
Aug

Texas Legal Citation Tip: Using the Greenbook

Texas is one of the few states that has its own legal citation manual. This manual is titled Texas Rules of Form, more commonly known as the Greenbook. It is produced by the staff of the Texas Law Review Association and is currently in its eleventh edition.
The Greenbook is designed to supplement The Bluebook: A [...]

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