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  2. List of United States federal legislation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. United States Code - Wikipedia

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    Statutes often repeal or amend earlier laws, and extensive cross-referencing is required to determine what laws are in force at any given time. [ 2 ] The United States Code is the result of an effort to make finding relevant and effective statutes simpler by reorganizing them by subject matter, and eliminating expired and amended sections.

  4. List of U.S. state statutory codes - Wikipedia

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    Florida Statutes: Florida Statutes Georgia: Official Code of Georgia Annotated: Georgia Code Hawaii: Hawaii Revised Statutes: Hawaii Revised Statutes Idaho: Idaho Statutes: Idaho Statutes Illinois: Illinois Compiled Statutes: January 1, 1993: ILCS; replaced Illinois Revised Statutes (Ill.Rev.Stat.) of 1874: Illinois Compiled Statutes Indiana

  5. Act of Congress - Wikipedia

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    For example, P. L. 111–5 (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) was the fifth enacted public law of the 111th United States Congress. Public laws are also often abbreviated as Pub. L. No. X–Y. When the legislation of those two kinds are proposed, it is called public bill and private bill respectively.

  6. United States Statutes at Large - Wikipedia

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    The United States Statutes at Large is the name of the session law publication for U.S. Federal statutes. [1] The public laws and private laws are numbered and organized in chronological order. [2] U.S. Federal statutes are published in a three-part process, consisting of slip laws, session laws (Statutes at Large), and codification (United ...

  7. Code of Federal Regulations - Wikipedia

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    For example, 42 C.F.R. § 260.11(a)(1) would indicate "title 42, part 260, section 11, paragraph (a)(1)." Conversationally, it would be read as "forty-two C F R two-sixty point eleven a one" or similar. While new regulations are continually becoming effective, the printed volumes of the CFR are issued once each calendar year, on this schedule:

  8. Law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Second, a small number of important British statutes in effect at the time of the Revolution have been independently reenacted by U.S. states. Two examples are the Statute of Frauds (still widely known in the U.S. by that name) and the Statute of 13 Elizabeth (the ancestor of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act). Such English statutes are still ...

  9. Statute - Wikipedia

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    A statute is a formal written ... persons trying to find the law are forced to sort through an enormous number of statutes enacted at various points in time to ...