advance sheets

advance sheets definition - legal

n

A paperback or looseleaf booklet or pamphlet containing recent decisions issued by a (usually appellate) court. Advance sheets are published between the announcement of the courtÂ’s decision and the decisionÂ’s incorporation in a bound volume of law reports. See also reports and slip opinion.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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