Syllabus (legal)

Most legal opinions begin with a syllabus, a paragraph that lists the laws used in the determination.[1] While the syllabi act as summaries of the cases, they are not considered to be part of the actual decisions. Thus, future cases cannot cite them as precedential to their arguments.[2]

References
  1. "Legal Dictionary - Law.com". Law.com Legal Dictionary.
  2. United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321, 337 (1906)


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