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A Primary authority is a document that establishes the law on a particular issue, such as a case decision or legislative act. The search for applicable primary authority is an important part of the process of legal research. In the United States, examples of primary authority include the verbatim texts of To be considered primary authority, a document does not have to be physically printed or published by a government entity, as long as the document purports to be and actually is a verbatim re-print of the applicable statute, regulation, court opinion, etc. That is, many lawyers, legal scholars, government agencies and others use verbatim re-prints of texts published by private commercial law publishing companies. The term primary authority is used to distinguish primary authority materials from texts considered to be Secondary authority.
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