HeinOnline’s Academic Core for the United Kingdom is an entire digital library containing the full text of more than 3,300 law and law-related journals, access to U.S. federal and state case law, thousands of classic legal treatises, and a wealth of government publications.
Among the package’s many databases, access the Statutes of the Realm, English Reports, and more - all are exact replicas of the original print publications and all are fully searchable.
For help on using HeinOnline check out the HeinOnline Knowledge Base or the HeinOnline video library for short videos on how to search and use the collections.
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