wot cc eee Where to find and how to find legal materials: The Fesearchers, judges, ‘legal | practitioners, teachers, and the students of law often involved in search of law to be applied to a case in hand. To find out such materials, a systematic or an order search is required.imary and secondary sources; A authoritative rule is drawn is a Primary so om Which the Timary so} them are Secondary sources. "Y Source. The rest of Primary sources are mainly legislati They are found in the ciatiiory rr a eee Reporters respectively. The Statutory materials in tae islative enactment of the Union and State legislatures ond subordinate legislations framed by the executive from times ° time. . The secondary materials Possess only a persuasive value, in arriving at a judicial decision. However these mate- rials would also help a lawyer to persuade a court to apply a tule drawn from them to a case in hand. Though text books, commentaries, encyclopedias and treatises, popular reports are not primary sources, they may have some persuasive value and apply the same in the court of law. Both primary and secondary sources are available in a law library. Law library and How to use it: Library is not just a place where books are housed, but it is a place where books are classified and placed in an orderly manner so as to provide easy access to the reader. The law library is truly a vital factor in the administration of justice; an institution of extraordinary social significance in a free society. A Researcher desirous of using library should be acquainted with the procedure to use it. A reader begins work with textbooks and reference books. Books are arranged in the library subject -wise and each book is assigned a number as per the classification scheme adopted by the library. Two catalogue cards for each book are prepared. One card is 48Sprepared according to the subject or Call Number and the other in alphabetical order of the authors and titles, A researcher first to find out the catalogue card and then he would be able to find out call number of the book and from that he can easily reach the book. Therefore to find outa book ascertaining the call number is essential. Law reports like AIR, SCC, SCR, SCJ are kept separately and arranged year wise and in each case there are more volumes than one, then they are arranged in the ascending order; i.e., vol 1, vol 2, vol 3 etc. Legal periodicals, Government Publications, other legal literatures, Journals etc are also housed in the library. These materials also arranged in a systematic manner in the library. It can be searched in the similar manner as is stated above. In case of searching a case law, if we havea citation, our task to search a case law is lesser, where as , we have no Citations, then look forward towards either subject index: or case index to search a relevant case. Therefore a well-equipped law library is a must to a legal researcher. 4%