Definition of "headnotes" [headnotes]

• Plural form of headnote. (noun)

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• "It's probably true that the ability to limit by West headnotes is one of the more obscure of Shepard's many obscure features, but it was a valuable tool for those who used it."
• "It was left to the Court's reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis who, in effect as it turned out, decided it in his accompanying "headnotes" which the Court did nothing to refute, likely by intent."
• "And they got all this because a court reporter gave it to them in his "headnotes," after the fact, in a Court decision having nothing to do with corporate personhood."