Objectives
- Find the primary source for a claim
- Identify the custodian of a record
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Lesson
The primary source is the record itself: the statute, the filing, the dataset, the recording. Everything downstream describes it. The custodian is whoever holds the original: a court docket, an archive, an agency.
The sourcing rule: exact record, or do not cite it. If a reader cannot open it, a reader cannot check it.