Legal Research

Finding Statutes on LexisNexis

By Diane Murley

Yesterday I wrote about Finding Statutes on Westlaw. Today I will cover some of the LexisNexis tools that can make it easier to find the statutes you need.

LexisNexis segments

• Use the HEADING segment to search just the number and name of the topic under which a document has been organized.
• Use the SECTION segment to search just the number and caption of a document.

To find all sections of the Internal Revenue Code that deal with deductions or credits, I could search USCS for:

heading(”internal revenue code”) and (heading(deduction or credit) or section(deduction or credit))

LexisNexis also lets you search the tables of contents of codes, so if I knew that the Internal Revenue Code is title 26 of the U.S. Code, I could select title 26 of the USCS and search the Table of Contents for deduction or credit.

The UNANNO segment can be used to search, display, or print a statutory section without annotations.

For more information about searching a LexisNexis source, click on the information icon to the right of its name.

Full post as published by Ross-Blakley Law Library Blog on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).