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Legal Research Glossary

National Reporter System

The network of reporters published by West Group, which attempt to publish and digest all cases of precedential value from all state and federal courts.

Natural Language

An online database search strategy using normal English-language sentences or phrases instead of Boolean commands. See Boolean Logic.

North Eastern Reporter

One of seven regional reporters of the National Reporter System that contains every published decision from Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio, from 1885  to date.

North Western Reporter

One of seven regional reporters of the National Reporter System that contains every published decision from Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South  Dakota and Wisconsin, from 1879 to date.

Nutshell

A series of books, each of which provides brief, easily understood discussions of an area of  the law.