Thomas-Reuters owns it but the WestNext subscription at the local Law Library doesn't include it. It doesn't matter that much, it just sounds good. "Wow," the layman thinks, "He must really know what he's talking about, using Latin and all!"
You can get your own set for a mere $13,521.
Dave - Corpus Juris Secundum
All you need to start is Volume 11
> Thomas-Reuters owns it but the WestNext subscription at the local Law Library doesn't include it. It doesn't matter that much, it just sounds good. "Wow," the layman thinks, "He must really know what he's talking about, using Latin and all!"
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> You can get your own set for a mere $13,521.
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>> http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-products/Legal-Encyclopedias/Corpus-Juris-Secundum/p/100001060br >
CJS is a great resource for obtaining a 30,000 foot over-view of any legal topic. "B" for Boundaries has about 130 pages of boundary law that most surveyors know intimately (at least they should). "E" for Easements, or "D" for Deeds are great topics to start research with. American Jurisprudence (AmJur) is another encyclopedic resource that might be available if you can't get your hands on CJ or CJS.
Reading through CJS "Boundaries" is where I first made the inseparable connection between boundary surveying and the law.
JBS
They have AmJur on the subscription and the treatise Tiffany Real Property.
California being so large has its own set of encyclopedia(s), CalJur. We also have Miller&Starr California Real Property plus the Witkin Summary of California Law. The State Law Library is named after Witkin.
The State Law Librarian told me they have a set of CJS, it is still out in the warehouse in West Sacramento but will be back in the stacks soon (they just moved back into the Mosk Library and Courts Building from their temporary location across the street). She said their CJS is up to 2010 when the subscription was cancelled.
It's 10 minutes walk to the State Library from the office and about 20 to the Sacramento County Public Law library or I just drive over there after work, find free street parking and hoof it two blocks. They are open fairly late on weekdays. What I do is find what I want on the WestNext subscription then print it to a PDF, put a flash drive in the computer and print to it (they allow it).
The on-line stuff is cool but I would love to have a set of Pacific Reporters except Bonnie already has about 50' of books and she wants more bookcases for her books :-). Bookcases that I have to build. Sometimes the sketches and diagrams in the printed books are better and more readable than the scanned ones on the on-line service.
Dave - Corpus Juris Secundum
I found a used copy of CJS Volume 11 (1995 edition with the 2007 Pocket Part) on Amazon for $17 so my wife ordered it for me. 🙂
> ...I would love to have a set of Pacific Reporters ...
I know that you realize that would be near 1600 volumes, each about 3 inches thick - making the whole about 400 feet of bookshelf space. And growing at about 2 volumes per month!
I just want the old ones (first series), about a hundred feet worth.
I need to measure it, my wife probably has about a hundred feet of books.
Most of those are downloadable in pdf form from Google Books. As far as the real thing goes, I'll have to content myself with the Library's copies.
