Restatements of Law, American Law Institute

q       The Restatements are an attempt to organize (restate) common law rules in selected broad areas (agency, contracts, conflicts of law, etc.; see list, below). Restatements do not reflect statutes,which can alter common law rules and principles.

q       The Restatements are secondary authority, not law, but they are drafted by respected scholars, attorneys and jurists. They are useful as research tools and study aids.

q       Overall arrangement of individual Restatements: chapters, topics, numbered sections

q       Individual section arrangement: statement of principle (black letter rule), comment(s), illustration(s).  Illustrations are hypothetical, not actual case citations

q       Restatements Second and Third also include Reporter's notes, with citations to cases and
secondary authority.

q       Noncumulative appendix volumes for individual Restatements, Second and Third, include:
Annotations of cases citing Restatement sections,  Cross-references to West's key number system and American Law Reports (ALR). Reporter's notes appear in Appendices for Restatements, Second, of Agency, Contracts, and Torts

q       Most recent appendices of individual Restatements are updated by pocket parts. Pocket parts of
case citations are updated by Interim case citations.

q       In addition to the Restatements themselves and their Appendices, see also proposed, tentative,
and council drafts (shelved with official drafts in the library stacks). Drafts are similar to a legislative history,  showing how the official version developed, what changes were made over time.

Indexes, Annotations, Citations, etc.

q       Restatement of the law, Permanent General Index, covering agency, conflict of laws, contracts,
judgments, property, restitution, security, torts, trusts (1^st series only): KF 395 A32

q       Also individual indices for Restatements (1^st series)

q       Only individual indices for Restatements, Second and Third

q       Restatement in the courts: KF 395 A3 1945
Permanent edition: 1932-1944
noncumulative multiyear or annual supplements from 1948 to 1976
after 1976, court citations appear in Appendices and pocket parts and in the Interim Case
Citations (KF 395 A4 I58)

q       Interim Case Citations to the restatements of the law: KF 395 A4 I58
update pocket parts in appendices to individual Restatements

q       Shepard's restatement of the law citations : a compilation of citations to the American Law Institute's restatement of the law: KF 395 A4 S4 1994 and paperback supplement
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q       Maine annotations to the Restatement of the law of trusts: KFM 137 M33

q       Massachusetts annotations to the Restatement of the law of torts: KFM 2595 M37

q       Restatement of the law of conflict of laws, as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute, containing Massachusetts annotations: KFM 2487 M38

q       Restatement of the law of contracts, as adopted and promulgated by the American Law Institute, containing Massachusetts annotations: KFM 2550 R47

q       New Hampshire annotations to the Restatement of the law of conflict of laws: KFN 1287 N48