LSC-North Harris Library Research Guides: Legal Research: Finding Cases, Legislation, and other Legal Material: Starting Point

Background Sources

American Jurisprudence 2d
Call Number: online via Westlaw
Topical encyclopedia covering all fields of American law. It collects, examines, and summarizes the broad principles of American law and provides leads to supporting cases, related annotations, forms, proofs, and trial techniques.
Texas Jurisprudence 3d
Call Number: online via Westlaw
Texas legal encyclopedia. Provides a comprehensive A-to-Z statement of Texas law. Includes an analytical treatment of all law established in Texas and federal courts, as well as by acts of the legislature.
Black's Law Dictionary 11th Edition by Bryan A. Garner (Editor)
Call Number: Legal Reference, KF156 .B53
ISBN: 9781539229759
Publication Date: 2019
Legal Dictionary, provides definitions for legal terms, abbreviations and acronyms
Corpus Juris Secundum
Call Number: online via Westlaw
An encyclopedia of United States law at the federal and state levels. It is arranged alphabetically, into over 430 topics, which in turn are arranged into subheadings.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.