The Library consists of the following four treatises:

Summary of California Law (10th edition); 2005; 16 volumes with cumulative annual supplements. This treatise provides a critical examination and concise statement of every major substantive subject in California statutory and decisional law. Summary of California Law includes the following chapters:

1. Contracts
2. Insurance
3. Workers' Compensation
4. Agency and Employment
5. Sales
6. Negotiable Instruments
7. Secured Transactions in Personal Property
8. Security Transactions in Real Property
9. Torts
10. Constitutional Law
11. Taxation
12. Partnership
13. Corporations
14. Parent and Child
15. Husband and Wife
16. Community Property
17. Real Property
18. Personal Property
19. Equity
20. Trusts
21. Wills and Probate

California Procedure (5th edition); 2008; 10 volumes. with cumulative annual supplements. Every major branch of procedure is covered, including some important subjects that are both substantive and procedural in nature and are seldom brought together in a single treatise. California Procedure includes the following chapters:

1. Attorneys
2. Courts
3. Jurisdiction
4. Actions
5. Pleading
6. Provisional Remedies
7. Proceedings Without Trial
8. Trial
9. Judgment
10. Enforcement of Judgment
11. Attack on Judgment in Trial Court
12. Extraordinary Writs
13. Appeal
14. Administrative Proceedings

California Evidence (4th edition); 2000; 3 volumes with cumulative annual supplements. This work covers both the law of evidence and the production, presentation, and discovery of evidence in civil and criminal practice. California Evidence includes the following chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Judicial Notice
3. Burden of Proof and Presumptions
4. Circumstantial Evidence
5. Opinion Evidence
6. Hearsay
7. Demonstrative, Experimental, and Scientific Evidence
8. Documentary Evidence
9. Witnesses
10. Discovery
11. Presentation at Trial

 

California Criminal Law (3d edition); 2000; 6 volumes with cumulative annual supplements. California criminal law and procedure is comprehensively treated, including the federal constitution and United States Supreme Court cases affecting California law. It covers traditional common law crimes, as modified by statute and judicial decision, and the formidable accumulation of public welfare offenses in the statutes regulating businesses and professions, labor, health and safety, and many other subjects. California Criminal Law includes the following chapters:

1. Introduction to Crimes
2. Elements
3. Defenses
4. Crimes Against the Person
5. Crimes Against Property
6. Sex Offenses and Crimes Against Decency
7. Crimes Against Public Peace and Welfare
8. Crimes Against Governmental Authority
9. Punishment
10. Introduction to Criminal Procedure
11. Jurisdiction and Venue
12. Pretrial Proceedings
13. Illegally Obtained Evidence
14. Criminal Trial
15. Criminal Judgment
16. Criminal Appeal
17. Reversible Error
18. Criminal Writs