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Citation rules/Subdivisions and pincites/3.3 Sections and Paragraphs

Replace the ambiguous dash with “to”

Warning2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions

Where the section numbers in a span carry hyphens of their own, a dash joining them is ambiguous, so the span is written out with the word “to” instead.1

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  1. 1R. 3.3(b) Multiple sections and subsections.
  2. 2A warning: the form is usually wrong under the rule in note 1, and context can justify it.
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More in 3.3 Sections and Paragraphs

  1. Remove “at” before a section symbol
  2. Remove “at” before the paragraph symbol
  3. Remove “at” before the symbol
  4. Remove the extra “§”
  5. Remove the second “§”
  6. Replace “et seq.” with the section span
  7. Replace “et seq.” with the section span
  8. Replace the ambiguous dash with “to”
  9. Replace the decimal or the parentheses

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More in 3.3 Sections and Paragraphs

  1. Remove “at” before a section symbol
  2. Remove “at” before the paragraph symbol
  3. Remove “at” before the symbol
  4. Remove the extra “§”
  5. Remove the second “§”
  6. Replace “et seq.” with the section span
  7. Replace “et seq.” with the section span
  8. Replace the ambiguous dash with “to”
  9. Replace the decimal or the parentheses

Back to Subdivisions and pincites

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