Legalines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Adaptable to Seventh Edition of the Dukeminier Casebook (Legalines) 
asked by stix on November 19, 2006 4:13 AM
Legalines gives you authoritative, detailed briefs of every major case in your casebook. You get a clear explanation of facts, the issues, the courts holding and reasoning, and any significant concurrences or dissents. Even more importantly, you get an authoritative explanation of the significance of each case, and how it relates to other cases in your casebook. And with Legalines detailed table of cases, you can quickly find any case or concept youre looking for. But your professor expects you to know more than just the cases. Thats why Legalines gives you more than just case briefs. You get summaries of the black letter law as well. Thats crucial because some of the most important information in your casebooks isnt in the cases at all
its the black letter principles youre expected to glean from those cases. Legalines is the only study aid that gives you both case briefs and black letter review. With Legalines, you get everything you need to know whether its in a case or not!
Reviews
I have come to expect the best from the Legalines series, and they have usually delivered. These are the best of the variety of legal supplements and hornbooks I have used in my 2 years at law school (including Nutshell, Emmanuel and Casenotes). This book offers a compact, yet fairly detailed, look at wills and estates. It is keyed directly to the Dukeminier casebook, so it is easy to locate the section of the text you need help in. I appreciated this exactness when making my own outline...I didn't need to constantly flip through pages to match my notes, text and supplement. I also liked the plain, succinct explanations the book gave on each section of the law. I found their treatment of the degree of relationship scheme and various inheritance order systems and particularly helpful. Their case summaries are also well organized, dividing each case by its facts, issue(s) and holding(s). I would recommend this series of supplements to anyone, even if just used to assist in your own outline.
reviewed by squeege on November 28, 2006 10:56 AM
