Annotation
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Annotation
A note, summary, or commentary on some section of a book or a statute that is intended to explain or illustrate its meaning.
An annotation serves as a brief summary of the law and the facts of a case and demonstrates how a particular law enacted by Congress or a state legislature is interpreted and applied. Annotations usually follow the text of the statute they interpret in annotated statutes.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ANNOTATION, civil law. The designation of a place of deportation. Dig. 32,
1, 3 or the summoning of an, absentee. Dig. lib. 5.
2. In another sense, annotations were the answers of the prince to
questions put to him by private persons respecting some doubtful point of
law. See Rescript.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.