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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
casebook \case"book`\ n. a book in which detailed written records of cases are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work. Such books are often used as supplements to texts in law schools.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A collection of stories or accounts that can individually be described as cases. 2 (context legal English) A kind of book, used predominantly in United States law schools, containing the text of court opinions in legal cases accompanied by analysis and related materials. n. 1 A collection of stories or accounts that can individually be described as cases. 2 (context legal English) A kind of book, used predominantly in United States law schools, containing the text of court opinions in legal cases accompanied by analysis and related materials.
WordNet
adj. according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical; "a casebook schizophrenic"; "a textbook example" [syn: textbook]
n. a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work
Wikipedia
A casebook is a type of textbook used primarily by students in law schools. Rather than simply laying out the legal doctrine in a particular area of study, a casebook contains excerpts from legal cases in which the law of that area was applied. It is then up to the student to analyze the language of the case in order to determine what rule was applied and how the court applied it. Casebooks sometimes also contain excerpts from law review articles and legal treatises, historical notes, editorial commentary, and other related materials to provide background for the cases.
The teaching style based on casebooks is known as the casebook method and is supposed to instill in law students how to "think like a lawyer." The casebook method is most often used in law schools in countries with common law legal systems, where case law is a major source of law.
Most casebooks are authored by law professors, usually with two, three, or four authors, at least one of whom will be a professor at the top of his or her field in the area under discussion. New editions of casebooks often retain the names of famous professors on their covers decades after those professors have died. Updating of the books, then, falls on the shoulders of a younger generation of their colleagues. Such casebooks are often known by the names of the leading professor authors, such as Prosser, Wade, & Schwartz's, Torts: Cases & Materials (now in a 12th edition).
The leading publishers of casebooks in the United States are Thomson West (publisher of the Foundation Press and American Casebook Series imprints), Aspen Publishing, and LexisNexis. Each of these publishers uses a quickly identifiable color and pattern for their book covers across all subjects. Traditionally, the covers of casebooks come in the colors red, blue, or brown, although West's American Casebook Series has switched to faded black cloth as an environmental move.
The prevalence of the casebook method in American law schools has given rise to a market for commercial study aids "keyed" to a particular casebook edition. These study aids are generally summaries (" briefs") of the cases from the casebook to which it is "keyed," presenting them in the same order as the casebook. Often written by the same author who wrote the associated casebook, and published by the same company, "keyed" study aids are useful in distilling cases down to black-letter law. Popular study aid product lines include Legalines, High Court Case Summaries, and Gilbert Law Summaries published by West Thomson Reuters, Casenotes Legal Briefs by Aspen, and the Understanding series and Q&A series by LexisNexis.
Casebook is an episodic interactive movie point-and-click adventure game developed by Areo Cinematic Games and published by Big Fish Games.
Casebook may refer to:
- Casebook, a type of textbook used primarily by students in law schools.
- Casebook (video game), the 2008-9 episodic video game
- The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, a compilation of Sherlock Holmes novels
Casebook is an Australian educational documentary series produced by the 7 Network from 1966-1968. It was made with the co operation of the Australian Medical Association. Each episode usually contained 2-3 segments relating to medical advice given by a real doctor (Dr John) to patients (played by professional actors) suffering from a variety of illnesses.
One of the directors was David Cahill.
Usage examples of "casebook".
Rawlings casebook says it can be used as a substitute for cinchona bark-for quinine, you know.
And what had he seen, Daniel Rawlings, that had made him draw the fleur-de-lis in the margin of his casebook, with that discreet notation, "Aurum"?
In this day, casebook accounts like this often ended with a pious description of the deceased's last moments, marked-presurnablyby Christian resignation on the part of the holy, repentance by the sinful.
Then, with nothing of great urgency to do, I sat down to read Daniel Rawlings's casebook and mend stockings, my tocs comfortably toasting by the fire.
Instead, I picked up the skull, which I had set down next to my casebook oil the table.
She noted the telephone pole in her casebook, figuring it would be easy to spot on the news video, then went back to the patch and counted the same number of paces south.
Instead, I picked up the skull, which I had set down next to my casebook oil the table.
He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased.
Right now he longed for the rigidly structured routine of the law office, the neatly ordered paragraphs of legal casebooks, and the timeless rules of the courtroom.
To believe him would be to consider that crime was on the wane, an obviously false contention when one considered the two casebooks already filled with Holmes's exploits of the past twelve months.
If I remember correctly from the casebooks, the alien machine habitually monitors all radio broadcasts and telephone lines listening for enemy communications.