An annotated statute is published with section by section commentary. The commentary usually contains the legislative history of the section, or references to cases considering the section, or both.

A publisher of looseleaf services containing consolidated and annotated statutes in a variety of subject areas. Use the CCH Rapid Finder Index to find out if there is a CCH publication on your topic.

A consolidated statute is one in which amendments to the statute since the last revision have been incorporated.

A legal encyclopedia covering American law, published by West.

A full text search and retrieval program used extensively for CD ROM and Internet legal research databases. Popular Canadian research tools currently available in this format include British Columbia Practice, and the Dart statute products.

A subject index to the Canadian Abridgment Case Digests.

The citator used in Westlaw products for ascertaining the history of a case and whether a case or statute has been judicially considered or commented on in secondary sources. KeyCiteCanada on LawSource includes judicial consideration and secondary source commentary on Canadian cases, judicial consideration of Canadian legislation, and judicial cons [..]

Lexis is a large collection of computerised legal information, covering primarily American, English, European and international legal material. Lexis includes Canadian cases, statutes, and legal periodicals in the Canada library. However, Quicklaw (now owned by Lexis) is a more complete service for Canadian law. Lexis is available on the Internet a [..]

Statutes, regulations, by-laws, case law, and administrative rulings are primary sources of law. Although secondary sources may rationalize and explain the law more clearly than the primary sources, the primary sources establish the law. Therefore, in legal memoranda, opinion letters, legal argument, and facta, you must cite primary sources to supp [..]

A Canadian collection of computer research databases, containing statutes, comprehensive coverage of full text Canadian cases since 1986 (with stronger historical coverage for some jurisdictions and case reporters), a case citator, and a variety of case digests and topical databases. Full information about Quicklaw is available at LexisNexis.ca.