Using legal authority Texas Constitution Article I, Section 17 - provides that no person's property shall be taken, damaged or destroyed for public use without adequate compensation. 1. What jurisdictions does the legal authority cover - federal, state, or both? If state, does it cover a particular state or each state? 2. How is the legal authority organized - chronologically, by subject, or otherwise? 3. What tools for finding content does the legal authority have - indexes, tables, outlines, annotations, headnotes, footnotes, etc.? 4. How often and in what format is the legal authority updated? 5. Who is the author of the legal authority? Is the author a court, legislative body, legal editor, legal professional, academic, etc.? 6. Is this a secondary authorities or statutes or constitutional provision