Opinions of the Attorney General of the Maine: annual (and between 1893 and 1966 biennial), Augusta, (for published years) State Printer, 1889 &
1901–. (The attorney generals of Maine were issuing annual, later biennial, reports since 1839. The Maine attorney generals happened to include opinions
in their reports in 1889 and1901-1904. However, this became a statutory obligation when the duties of the attorney general were restated and enlarged
in 1905; among the new duties being the obligation to give written opinions on questions of law submitted by the Governor and Council, heads of
departments, board or commissions, and branches of the Legislature. There are no published opinions for the years 1911/12, 1915/16, 1918-24, and 1933-40.
However, manuscript copies for these years are believed to exist in the State files, and LLMC is attempting to obtain copies for scanning. In many of
the states the original paper versions of the attorney generals’ reports and opinions were sometimes published together, sometimes separately, and in
some cases, as in Maine, they were published as a separate section within the annual/biennial report. To minimize confusion in its online offerings,
LLMC has chosen to group all of the U.S. state attorney generals’ reports and opinions in two separate series for each state. For the Maine A.G. Reports,
see the separate Reports series elsewhere on this site.)
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