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Secondary authority

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-004411

Legal resources that explain, analyze, and comment on the law, but are not themselves binding legal precedent. These sources include treatises, law review articles, legal encyclopedias, and restatements of the law. Secondary authority is used to understand primary authority and to find relevant cases or statutes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-004411
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-004411",
  "term": "Secondary authority",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "Legal resources that explain, analyze, and comment on the law, but are not themselves binding legal precedent. These sources include treatises, law review articles, legal encyclopedias, and restatements of the law. Secondary authority is used to understand primary authority and to find relevant cases or statutes.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/secondary-authority/"
}

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