amend.
Law & Legal abbreviation · Legal Citation
| Stands for | Amendment |
|---|---|
| Categories | Law & Legal |
amend. stands for Amendment, a legal citation abbreviation.
Shortened form of "amendment" in constitutional citations, followed by a Roman numeral, as in "U.S. Const. amend. I" for the First Amendment. It appears in briefs, opinions and law review footnotes whenever a specific amendment is cited.
Example: The suppression motion rests on U.S. Const. amend. IV and the state's own search-and-seizure clause.
Usage notes
In text, write "the Fourth Amendment" with a capital A. The first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791. Only the Twenty-first Amendment has repealed another (the Eighteenth), and the Twenty-seventh, proposed in 1789, was not ratified until 1992. The plural is "amends."
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