Site Search

Note: If your search takes you to a file ending in ".htm" (such as 03a.htm), there is always a PDF version of the file that will display more accurately: 03a.pdf, for example.

Detailed Keyword Instructions for AALJ Site Search

This AALJ Site Search form at the top of this page performs a case-insensitive search using one or more keywords. You can use the booleans and, or, and not in searching. You should not put quotes around the search words. By default two or more keywords are "anded" together. Evaluation takes place from left to right only, although you can use parentheses to force the order of evaluation (see examples 2 and 3 below). You can also use wildcards (asterisks) to search for matches to the beginnings of words only — you can't put asterisks at the front or in the middle of words (see example 4 below).

Here are some sample searches, what they do, and what the resulting list of files will look like. Note that the results might not be what you expect.

1. john and doe or jane

   This search will be evaluated from left to right. It will look for all files that contain john and doe, then it will look for files with jane, and then it will combine these two lists. Files will either contain john and doe or will contain jane.

2. john and (doe or not jane)

   The operation in parentheses will be evaluated as a whole first. It will first look for all files that contain doe, add to this list of files all files that do not contain jane, and then look for john in the combined list. Files will either contain john and doe, or will contain john but not jane.

3. not (john or jane) and doe

   The search will look for all files containing john, add to the this list of files all files containing jane, exclude all these files from the search, and then look for all files with doe. Files will all contain doe but none will contain john or jane.

4. j* and doe

   This will search for all files that contain words starting with the letter j, add to that list all files that also contain doe. Files will contain both words starting with j and doe.