Syllabus
I had only known the word “syllabus” from its usage in education, where it is roughly synonymous with “curriculum”. From Cambridge Dictionary 🔗:
(a plan showing) the subjects or books to be studied in a particular course, especially a course that leads to an exam
However, this week I learned of the legal definition of “syllabus” as the blog Techdirt published a post about the First Amendment 🔗 which linked to a couple of pages about court cases, and some those pages had a “syllabus” link in their sidebar, which each linked to a list of legal findings.
Miriam Webster defines “syllabus” 🔗 as the sense of “headnote” that means:
a note prefixed to the report of a decided legal case
The American Heritage Dictionary features a slightly different definition 🔗:
A summary or abstract of the legal rulings contained in a published judicial case opinion.
I can only assume that every lawyer has to learn this definition in law school. It would be a shame to leave it off the syllabus.