This is a list of abbreviations used in law and legal documents. It is common practice in legal documents to cite other publications by using standard abbreviations for the title of each source. Abbreviations may also be found for common words or legal phrases. Such citations and abbreviations are found in court decisions, statutes, regulations, journal articles, books, and other documents. Below is a basic list of very common abbreviations. Because publishers adopt different practices regarding how abbreviations are printed, one may find abbreviations with or without periods for each letter. For example, the Code of Federal Regulations may appear abbreviated as "C.F.R." or just as "CFR". Symbol © or [Copr.] or C — Copyright (meaning someone claims ownership of the text, book, music, software, etc.) ® — Registered Trademark (typically a word or phrase identifying a company or product, e.g. Coca-Cola) ™ — Trademark (interim symbol used after an application for Trademark protection has been filed with the appropriate trademark office (in U.S. - USPTO), but before it has been approved) ¶ (Pilcrow) — Paragraph ¶¶ — Multiple Paragraphs § — section §§ — Multiple Sections Π (Greek letter Pi) or P — Plaintiff Δ (Greek letter delta) or D — Defendant ¢ — Claim 0–9 1A First Amendment through 27A Twenty-Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution A A. — Atlantic Reporter A.2d — Atlantic Reporter, 2nd Series a/a/o — as assignee of AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis ABA — American Bar Association AC — Appeal Cases (United Kingdom law report) ACC — Association of Corporate Counsel ad., ads., adsm. — (Latin), at the suit of. Used in colonial and Federal Era American cases when the defendant is listed first; e.g., "John Doe v. Richard Roe" is labeled "Richard Roe ads. John Doe." The long script "S" of the period often makes this appear as "adj." adj. — see "ad." above. Ala. Admin. Code — Alabama Administrative Code (unofficial text) Ala. Code — Code of Alabama 1975 (unofficial text) Alaska Admin. Code — Alaska Administrative Code (unofficial text) Alaska Stat. — Alaska Statutes (unofficial text) All ER — All England Law Reports A.L.R. — American Law Reports A.L.R.2d — American Law Reports, 2nd Series A.L.R.3d — American Law Reports, 3rd Series A.L.R.4th — American Law Reports, 4th Series A.L.R.5th — American Law Reports, 5th Series A.L.R.6th — American Law Reports, 6th Series A.L.R. Fed. — American Law Reports,