Pennsylvania Law Encyclopedia
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This indispensable resource discusses the basic elements of virtually every subject area pertinent to the practice of law in Pennsylvania. For each major issue discussed, Pennsylvania Law Encyclopedia provides black letter law summaries that precede more in-depth analyses of case law, statutes, and rules, with proper citations to other authority. Concise yet comprehensive, Pennsylvania Law Encyclopedia presents Pennsylvania laws and their exceptions, qualifications, limitations, and extensions.
Prepared by lawyer-editors who are experts in Pennsylvania law, the Encyclopedia speeds your research with time-saving organization, including:
• Concise Summaries, set out in distinctive type, precede the statement of the law in each section - so you can quickly determine if you're looking in the right place.
• Landmark Cases are analyzed in the text, giving you important insight when the Pennsylvania courts clarify a doubtful question or overrule a longstanding principle.
• Cross References to pertinent primary and secondary materials ensure that your research is complete.
• Individual Volume Indexes list alphabetically relevant fact words under appropriate titles for quick access to law on point. A separate General Index provides more detailed title analyses.
• Annual Supplements and the new and improved Second Edition ensure that you're kept fully up-to-date on the latest Pennsylvania statutory and case law.
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Table of contents
Actions
Administrative Law & Procedure
Adoption
Agency
Animals
Appeals
Appearance
Arrest
Assignments
Assignments for Benefit of Creditors
Associations & Clubs
Attorneys
Automobiles & Motor Vehicles
Bail
Bailment
Banks & Banking
Beneficial Associations
Bonds
Boundaries
Brokers
Building &Loan Associations
Burial Grounds
Carriers
Certiorari
Charities
Civil Rights
Commercial Transactions
Common Law
Constitutional Law
Contempt
Continuances
Contracts
Corporations
Costs
Counties
Courts
Covenants
Criminal Law
Damages
Death; Dead Bodies
Declaratory Judgment
Discovery & Depositions
Divorce
Election of Remedies
Elections
Electricity
Eminent Domain
Environmental Law
Equity
Estates in Property
Estoppel
Evidence
Execution
Executors & Administrators
Exemptions
False Imprisonment
Fraud
Fraudulent Conveyances
Frauds, Statute of
Gas
Gifts
Guardian & Ward
Health & Environment
Husband & Wife
Indemnity
Insurance
Interest & Usury
Interpleader
Joint Ventures
Judges
Judgment
Judicial Sales
Jury
Labor
Landlord & Tenant
Libel & Slander
Licenses
Limitations of Actions
Liquor
Magisterial District Judges
Malicious Prosecution
Mechanics'Liens
Mental Health
Mining
Minors
Municipal Corporations
Names
Negligence
New Trial
Nuisance
Parent & Child
Parties
Partition
Partnership
Physicians & Surgeons
Pleading
Process
Property
Public Officers & Employees
Public Utilities
Quo Warranto
Railroads
Receivers
Reformation of Instruments
Release
Replevin
Sales of Personalty
Sales of Realty
Schools
Searches & Seizures
Sheriffs & Constables
Social Welfare
Specific Performance
State Government
Statutes
Stipulations
Street Railroads
Subrogation
Suretyship
Taxation
Telecommunications
Tender
Time
Torts
Townships
Trade & Commerce
Trespass
Trial
Trusts
Venue
Waters
Weights & Measures
Wills
Witnesses
Workers'Compensation