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Criminal forms and trial manual
Latest received: 2024 Supplements. By McCormick, Michael J. Thomson/West. Eleventh edition. c2005.
This title provides thorough coverage of criminal violations as found in the Texas Penal Code as well as criminal violations from other Texas codes including the Agriculture Code, Alcoholic Beverage Code, Parks and Wildlife Code, and Health and Safety Code. It includes discussion of the latest legislative updates and applicable case law. The three volume set is divided into three part which cover complaints, informations, and indictments; criminal procedure; and court charges.
KFT 209 T4 V. 7-8
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O'Connor's Texas civil forms
Latest received: 2024 Edition. Jones McClure Pub. c2002-.
A complete set of forms for common motions and responses. Includes forms for original petitions, answers, and discovery for breach of contract, personal injury, bill of review, and suit on sworn account cases. A user-friendly format aids in piecing together the various pleading parts. Provides notes and information on drafting and filing.
KFT 8836 O3
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Texas criminal practice guide
Latest received: Release 121, August 2024. By Matthew Bender (Firm). M. Bender. 1979-.
"First published in 1979, the guide's six volumes are arranged by section to correspond with the progression of the Texas criminal justice system, making their detailed information easy to access, whether you're a new attorney or an experienced practitioner. Each volume contains a number of chapters divided into four parts: legal background, practice guide, forms and research guide." - publisher's description
Table of contents: https://catalog.sll.texas.gov/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=130b365351a3783e22a9c9a97e3c40ea
KFT 9219 T36
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Texas forms : Practice-oriented forms for Texas legal and business transactions
Latest received: 2024 Pocket parts. West. 1969-.
"This title contains standard legal and business forms most commonly used in Texas practice. It contains more than 6,500 court-tested forms for transactions in real property, consumer protection, leases, contracts, personal property, business enterprises assignments, estate planning, nonprofit associations and corporations, assignments, family law, and commercial code. Each form includes a concise statement of controlling Texas law, as well as checklists, checkpoints, tables, cautions, reminders, and recommendations." - publisher's description
KFT 170 T4
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Texas jurisprudence pleading and practice forms : 2nd edition
Latest received: 2023-2024 Pocket parts. Bancroft-Whitney Co. Second edition. 1972-.
"This set contains explanatory text material, pleading and procedural guides, checklists, and references to various Texas publications and Texas authority and to non-Texas authority. It covers everything from assignments for benefit of creditors, attorneys at law, collection and credit agencies, death by wrongful act, and non-suit divorce and separation to tort liability, habeas corpus, husband and wife, joint ventures, and judges." - publisher's description
KFT 170 P3
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Texas legal practice forms
Latest received: 2023 Edition. West. c2011-.
"This title contains forms on the latest topics in Texas practice reflecting recent statutory changes. Subject areas include personal injury, insurance, family law, estate planning, trusts, personal and real property, employment and services contracts, business organizations and transactions, financial transactions, and bankruptcy." - publisher's description
KFT 170 S74
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Texas litigation guide
Latest received: Release 154, June 2024. M. Bender. 1977-.
This comprehensive set explains the law and procedure in a given area and then provides drafting guides to prepare the forms. The set is divided into 10 different units: Pretrial Practice, Trial Practice, Appellate Practice, Pleadings in Business Entity Litigation, Pleadings in Commercial Litigation, Pleadings in Real Estate Litigation, Pleadings in Personal Injury Litigation, Family Code Litigation, Probate Code Litigation, and Administrative Proceedings. Chapters are divided into four parts: legal background on a topic, a drafting guide, forms, and a research guide.
Note: This item is also available electronically, but electronic access is restricted to government employees only.
Table of contents: https://catalog.sll.texas.gov/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=a324b58063bb962b664136755c016499
KFT 170 D6
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Texas methods of practice
Latest received: 2024-2025 Edition. Thomson/West. c2012-.
"Provides UCC coverage, including consumer credit, bank deposits and collections, documents of title, investment securities, and secured transactions. Issues relating to business organizations include: property rights and partnership dissolution, agency aspects of limited partnerships, limited liability companies, formation of corporations, fiduciary duties of officers and controlling shareholders, and nonprofit corporations. Also includes coverage of real estate and family law." - publisher's description
KFT 209 T4 V.11-14
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Texas practice guide. Civil trial
Latest received: 2024 Editions. By Hedges, Adele. West Group. 2011-.
This title is one of components of the Texas Practice Guide, which is West's answer to the Texas Litigation Guide. For years this series was published in loose-leaf binders, but recently the format has changed so that each title in the series is published annually in pamphlet form. The series is written in outline format so information can be located with a quick scan of the contents. References to additional West Publishing titles are included as well as relevant Topic and Key Numbers. Procedural checklists and forms are provided with each chapter. The final volume of each title includes a Table of Statutes and Table of Cases that list all the statutes and cases included in the title. Additionally, West provides an index volume that covers the Texas Practice Guide in its entirety to help locate where a subject is covered within the series.
KFT 209 T5 CIV. TRIAL
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Texas transaction guide, legal forms
Latest received: Release 142, June 2024. By Kendrick, Herbert S. M. Bender. 1972-.
"From business and commercial dealings to personal and real estate transactions, Texas Transaction Guide: Legal Forms contains all the information you need to successfully represent your client through any transactional process. Depend on step-by-step guidance, practice notes, research guides, legal backgrounds, practice guides and insightful commentary in your transaction law practice." - from the publisher
Note: This item is also available electronically, but electronic access is restricted to government employees only.
Table of contents: https://catalog.sll.texas.gov/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=af917887530a232a3010463d7e3b84f5
KFT 170 K4
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Uniform Commercial Code forms
Latest received: 2024 Pocket parts. By Krahmer, John. Thomson/West. Fourth edition. 2007.
This title provides coverage of all the recent major revisions of the Texas Business and Commerce Code including leases, commercial paper, bank deposits and collections, bulk sales, investment securities, and secured transactions. It also provides references to related material by the same publisher.
KFT 170 K73
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West's Texas forms
Latest received: 2024 Pocket parts. West Pub. Co. 1977-.
"Prepared by experienced Texas practitioners, West’s Texas Forms delivers the “real-world” forms you need when drafting legal documents. Includes in-depth commentary and analysis of relevant statutes and cases. Form preparation features detailed table of contents, background and overview, drafting checklists, client interview worksheets, alternative provisions and clauses, substantive research features, references to tax considerations, references to federal law, and library references to the West Key Number System®." - publisher's description
KFT 170 W4
» Federal/General Titles
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American jurisprudence legal forms
Latest received: 2014 Pocket parts. Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co.. Second edition. 1971-.
"This comprehensive set of American Jurisprudence legal forms allows clear, accurate, and informed application of more than 22,000 legal documents. Arranged alphabetically, each title contains form drafting guides, notes on use, and copious sample forms. Includes a separate Federal Tax Guide to Legal Forms, covering pertinent tax law, which is cross-referenced to the volumes of forms. Provides text discussions, checklists, finding aids, chapter outlines, commentary, practice aids, and a detailed index to the entire set." - publisher's description
KF170 .A542
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American jurisprudence pleading and practice forms annotated : State and federal
Latest received: Spring 2014 Pocket parts. West Group. 1956-.
"Comprehensive collection of more than 43,000 drafted, practice- and court-tested state and federal forms, checklists, and timetables needed for every stage of a case. Includes commentary and “how to” guidance, plus statutory and procedural rules references. Covers notices, complaints, petitions, declarations, summonses, demurrers, answers, counterclaims, cross-complaints, interrogatories, replies, motions, affidavits, stipulations, bills of particulars, subpoenas, orders, writs, jury instructions, findings of fact, judgments, bonds, decrees, and much more." - publisher's description
Note: This title is no longer being kept up to date by the library.
KF 170 A44
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Federal procedural forms, lawyers edition
Latest received: 2017 Pocket parts. Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co. 1975-.
"Provides step-by-step guidance in drafting forms for proceedings before federal courts and administrative agencies, including extensive procedural checklists, "how to" text, and convenient practice aids. Reflects current practice in all federal courts and major agencies, providing a fact word index, a table of constitutional and statutory provisions, court rules, and procedural guides. Also includes informed discussions on the Constitution, federal statutes, administrative rules and regulations, federal law locator, relevant state aspects, and practice pointers." - publisher's description
KF 170 F43
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Moore's federal practice
Latest received: Release 223, September 2024. Matthew Bender. Third edition. 1997-.
"Moore's Federal Practice is the backbone of any federal litigator's library. Comprehensive and authoritative, Moore's is written by the judges, lawyers, and professors who write and amend the Federal Rules, and is Matthew Bender's flagship treatise on federal civil, criminal, appellate, and admiralty procedure." - publisher's description
Note: This item is also available electronically, but electronic access is restricted to government employees only.
Table of contents: https://catalog.sll.texas.gov/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=120dab5341bfaf25759f9af9f5c39a83
KF 8840.3 M662
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Moore's manual. Federal practice forms
Latest received: Release 119, May 2024. By Moore, James William. M. Bender. [1964]-.
"Moore's Manual: Federal Practice Forms is a handy condensation of Bender's Federal Practice Forms. This indispensable desk set, first published in 1964, brings together the essential forms for use in civil litigation in federal court, from the initial filing of the action through appeal. These time-saving forms can also be adapted for use in any of the 39 states that have modeled their procedures after the federal rules." - publisher's description
Note: This item is also available electronically.
Table of contents: https://catalog.sll.texas.gov/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=6583a04dc1473a7304bba0f1a3f5270a
KF 8840.3 M6 FORMS
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Nichols cyclopedia of legal forms annotated
By Nichols, Clark Asahel. Clark Boardman Callaghan. 1936-.
"This multi-volume library of transactional forms covers more than 230 topics of law, such as contracts, deeds, wills, trusts, articles of incorporation, and merger agreements. Includes all the forms, checklists, questionnaires, and tax information needed to facilitate a transaction or relationship between parties." - publisher's description
KF170 .N5
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O'Connor's federal civil forms
Latest received: 2024. Jones McClure Pub. 2003-.
"O'Connor's Federal Civil Forms is the companion to O'Connor's Federal Rules Civil Trials, giving practitioners more than 500 plain-English, fill-in-the-blank forms for federal pleadings and motion practice.It includes all the pre-answer motions and responses, as well as complete sets of complaints, answers, and discovery for 15 different types of lawsuits, including copyright and trademark infringement, Title VII employment discrimination and sexual harassment, ADA, ADEA, FELA, FMLA, Federal Tort Claims Act, Jones Act, and Section 1983 claims." - publisher's description
KF 170 O3
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Section 1983 litigation forms
By Witt, John W. Wiley Law Publications. Second edition. c2016.
"Section 1983 Litigation: Forms, Second Edition includes all the case-tested forms you need (for plaintiff and defendant) to successfully litigate Section 1983 claims. In addition, each form includes analysis to help you determine the best course of action. This practical resource covers issues such as police misconduct, public employment, business licensing, zoning claims, and more, saving you hours of research and drafting time." - publisher's description
Note: This item is also available electronically.
KF 1325 C58 W57
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West's legal forms
Latest received: 2013-2014 Pocket parts. Thomson/West. Second edition. 1981-.
"West's Legal Forms provides you with a selection of customizable forms suitable for drafting a wide range of legal documents. It is organized around major topics of law and offers expert guidance on related law and procedure from practicing attorneys. It includes detailed commentary, analysis, checklists, and library references to the Key Number System and covers business organizations, retirement plans, debtor-creditor relations, real estate transactions, domestic relations, estate planning, commercial transactions, elder law, patents, copyrights and trademarks, employee benefit plans, employment agencies, service agreements, and general forms." - publisher's description
KF 170 W47