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The Statutes at Large is the name given to published collections or series of legislative Acts in a number ... Volume 17 – 9 George II to 15 George II – 1735–36 ...
Volumes 1 to 64 (1789–1951) of the Statutes at Large at the Library of Congress; Volume 65 et seq. (1951–present) of the Statutes at Large at Govinfo (U.S. Government Publishing Office) Volumes 1 to 18 (1789–1875) of the Statutes at Large made available by the Library of Congress American Memory collections
His major work was an abridgment of the Statute Book, entitled The Statutes at Large, ... Volume 17 – 9 George II to 15 George II – 1735–36 to 1741–42;
Volumes 1 through 18, which have all the statutes passed from 1789 to 1875, are available on-line at the Library of Congress, here. In the list below, statutes are listed by X Stat. Y, where X is the volume of the Statutes at Large and Y is the page number, as well as either the chapter or Public Law number. See examples below.
The Revised Statutes of the United States (in citations, Rev. Stat.) was the first official codification of the Acts of Congress. It was enacted into law in 1874. The purpose of the Revised Statutes was to make it easier to research federal law without needing to consult the individual Acts of Congress published in the United States Statutes at Large.
The first edition of the United States Code (published as Statutes at Large Volume 44, Part 1) includes cross-reference tables between the USC and two of these unofficial codes, United States Compiled Statutes Annotated by West Publishing Co. and Federal Statutes Annotated by Edward Thompson Co.
The Statutes of the Realm. Vol. 4 Part 1: 1547 to 1584. pp. 349–400 – via Hathi Trust. Pickering, Danby, ed. (1763). "Anno primo Elizabethæ". The Statutes at Large. Vol. 6: from the First Year of Queen Mary to the Thirty-fifth Year of Queen Elizabeth, inclusive. Cambridge: Joseph Bentham. pp. 107–151 – via Internet Archive.
Perhaps his most famous work is Hening's edition of The Statutes at Large; being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia. The well researched 13 volume magnum opus of legal scholarship that codified the Commonwealth of Virginia's laws from 1619–1792, along with an extensive appendix which describes trials and historical events. [8]