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Citation rules/Foreign materials/20.1 Jurisdiction

Abbreviate the foreign jurisdiction

Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

A citation to a non-U.S. source names the issuing jurisdiction in a parenthetical at the end of the citation, abbreviated as table T10 prints it.1

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  1. 1R. 20.1 Jurisdiction; R. 20.3.2(c) Jurisdiction; T10.3 Countries and Regions; T10.2 Australian Cities and States; Canadian Cities, Provinces, and Territories; and U.K. Cities and Constituent Countries,.
  2. 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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  1. Abbreviate the foreign jurisdiction
  2. Abbreviate the statute's jurisdiction
  3. Add the abbreviation in square brackets
  4. Add the bracketed English title
  5. Add the bracketed rendering
  6. Add the full name at the first use
  7. Capitalize the translation's first word
  8. Give the name's own rendering
  9. Use "translated in" for a translation

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More in Foreign materials

  1. Abbreviate the foreign jurisdiction
  2. Abbreviate the statute's jurisdiction
  3. Add the abbreviation in square brackets
  4. Add the bracketed English title
  5. Add the bracketed rendering
  6. Add the full name at the first use
  7. Capitalize the translation's first word
  8. Give the name's own rendering
  9. Use "translated in" for a translation

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