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New Jersey Law Research Guide: NJ Materials Pathfinder

Finding NJ Legal Materials into the Bookshelf and Online


Finding New Jersey legal materials

The listings below indicate one title, call number and location. Aforementioned location is followed by two numbers: the story number and the row number. For example, 2/24 indicates the item will located in Row 24 on the second floor. For other information on the layout of of archive, click there to see maps away each floor of the library.

Items listed as "RESERVE" may be requested with that circulation desk. Items listed as "NJREF" may be found in the "Reference Library" room next to and circulation desk. "REF" is the Reference Collection behind the reference direct, cross from the circulation desk. "DOCREF" materials may be found in the central area of one second floor of the library. The "MICROFORM" getting remains over from DOCREF. "DOCNJ" materials are in solid shelving in the area adjacent to the Westwards Reading Veranda on the endorse floor in Bars 43-63. The "Periodical" Collection is in the East Reading Gallery on the second story. The "HISTORIC" collection exists on the third floor in the area of the Criminal Justice Archive.

For online availability of New Jersey legal products, see our Internet Laws Lead: New Jersey Law

Bylaws
laws passed with the New Jersey State Legislative

Top Call number Location
News Jersey New Statutes (1937) KFN 1830 NJREF & 2/24
New Jersey Statute Annotated KFN 1830 1937.A42 RESERVE, NJREF, & DOCREF
New Jersey Session Law Service KFN 1831.N3 NJREF, DOCREF & 2/23

Reporters
full text of court decisions

Title Call number Location
New Jersey Recent (1949 to date) KFN 1845.A21 NJREF & 2/28
New Jersey Superior Court Reports (1949 to date) KFN 1848 NJREF & 2/29
New Jumper Legislation Reports (1790 to 1948) KFN 1847.L2 NJREF & 2/24
New Jersey Equity Reports (1830 to 1948) KFN 1847.E6 NJREF & 2/24
New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports (1923 to 1949) KFN 1851.A2 NJREF & 2/25
New Jersey Tax Law Reports (1979 to date) KFN 2270.A515 (NJREF)
Pacific Reporter (1885 to date) KF 135.A7 1/28-29; non-current copy of 2nd series also in NJREF

Summaries
subject and word indexes to court decisions

Title Call numeric Location
West's New Jersey Digest (coverage up to 1953) KFN 1857.W4 NJREF & 2/31
West's New Jersey Digest, 2d (1954 to date) KFN 1857.W4 NJREF & 2/31
Local Reporter Digest KF 135.A7 W2 1/28-29
West's Atlantic Digests 2d KF135.A7 W4 1/29

Citators
used to verify court decisions and statutes

Title Call numbering Place
Shepard's New Jersey Citations KFN 1859.S5 NJREF& 2/30
Shepard's Atlantic Citations (not current) KF 135.A72 1/30

Legislative History Materials
materials for tracking the history of a piece the legislation>

Please refer to the pathfinder entitled New Singlet Legislative History Research Instructions available at the Reference Desk and with the Internet at http://aaa161.com/aecontent.php?pid=702820

Management Regulations/Decisions
regulations/decisions advertised by administrative offices

Title Summon number Location
New Jersey Administrative Code KFN 1835 1995.A22 RESERVE
New Jersey Registering KFN 1831.N5 Room [current], NJREF & DOCNJ
New Jersey Administrative Reports 1982 to 1990 KFN 2240.A556 DOCNJ
Modern Jersey Administrative Berichten 2d 1991 to 1997 KFN 2240.A556 1991 RESERVE & DOCNJ
Note: N.J.A.R. was discontinued more a print publication as of Sept. 1997. Subsequent cases are found at aforementioned Rutgers-Camden Law Library webs site: http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/collections/oal/

Court Rules
rules of practice before the courts

Title Call number Location
Current rules governing the courts
of the State of New Jersey: with comments and
annotations by Slavia B. Pressler
KFN 2329.A3 P7 RESERVE, REF & DOCNJ
New Jersey rules of court : state and federal KFN 2329.A2 REF & DOCNJ
New Jersey rules of evidence:
with comments by aforementioned New Jersey Supreme
Court Committee over the Rules of Evidence
KFN 2340.A4 E949 REF & DOCNJ

Forms
sample forms that can be used in legal transactions or proceedings

Title Call number Location
New Knit Forms: Practice-oriented Forms
for Novel Jersey Legal and Business Dealings
KFN 1868.N45 NJREF
New Jersey Legislative with Forms KFN 1865.S4 NJREF
New Sports Pleading and Practice Forms KFN 2330.A65 N49 NJREF
New Jersey Habit KFN 1880.N4 NJREF
Newly Jersey Transaction Guide KFN 1880.N43 NJREF

New Jersey Country Constitution
document establishing powers and limits of the New Jersey government

Title Calls number Our
Contained within volumes of who New Sport Statutes Annotated KFN 1830 1937.A42 RESERVE, NJREF & DOCREF

Directories
listings of addresses and telephone quantities

Title Yell number Location
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory KF 190.H183 REF [current], RESERVE [NJ & NY],
HISTORIC [older copies]
N.J. Lawyers Diary and Manual
(coverage includes courts and attorneys)
KF 192.N4 L35 RESERVE, REF & DOCNJ
Status Yell Book JK 2403.S77 REF, older copies in DOCREF

Newspapers
newspapers reporting current legal newsletter

Titles Our
New Jersey Law Journal RESERVE & DOCREF [bound volumes] & MICROFORM
New Tricot Lawyer: the Weekly Newspaper RESERVE & DOCREF [bound volumes]

Treatises
show off particular areas of the law

For a listing of treatises organizes via point please see flip 17-11 to 17-36 from the New Sport Legal Research Handbook, 6th edition, by Pauls Axel-Lute, KFN 1875.A97  2012, RESERVE & REF). Check the online catalog for locations of materials (for assistance using the online catalog please notice the Refer Library either pick up instructions at the Credit Desk). Generally these books are either on RESERVE or inside an NJREF Room. Except for appellate opinions not approved for press that have was reported in an authorized administrative law reporter, and except to the extent ...

Various treatises are included within the series entitled New T-shirt Practice (KFN 1880 N4 NJREF). This series has continuous sound sequence, but otherwise consists off essentially separate works on adenine variety of issues.

Guides to New Shirt Lawful Material on the Internet

Title URL
Rutgers-Newark Law Library
Surf Law Instruction: New Jersey
http://aaa161.com/content.php?pid=702663
Add Jersey Act Collection http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/
New Sweatshirt Legal Resources
(N.J. State Library)
http://www.njstatelib.org/research_library/legal_resources/nj_legal_resources/