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Statutes

Here are entered works on legislative enactments as a source of law, as distinct from constitutional law or from the law arising from judicial or administrative decisions. Collections of statutes not limited to a specific topic are entered under Law with local subdivision, as appropriate. Works on the interpretation of statutes and other laws, are entered under Law -- Interpretation and construction. Works on the legislative process are entered under Legislation.

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• Law

• Statutes -- United States
• Statutes -- Word frequency
• Law -- Interpretation and construction
• Ordinances, Municipal
• Session laws

• Acts, Legislative
• Enactments, Legislative
• Laws (Statutes)
• Legislative acts
• Legislative enactments

• Sex Bias in the U.S. Code (1977), by United States Commission on Civil Rights, contrib. by Brenda Feigen-Fasteau and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (PDF at Maryland)

• Session Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials, by Alaska Legislature (partial serial archives)

• Acts of the General Assembly, by Arkansas (partial serial archives)

• Acts and Resolutions of the General Assembly, by Florida (partial serial archives)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, by Georgia General Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Laws of Her Majesty Liliuokalani, Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, Passed by the Legislative Assembly at Its Session, 1892 (Honolulu: R. Grieve, ca. 1892), by Hawaii (at catalog.hathitrustm.org)

• General Laws of the State of Idaho (full serial archives)

• Public Laws of the State of North Carolina, by North Carolina (partial serial archives)
• Ordinances of the State Convention, Published in Pursuance of a Resolution of the General Assembly (Raleigh: W. W. Holden, 1863), by North Carolina Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, by Virginia (partial serial archives)
• Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Adjourned Session, 1863, in the Eighty-Seventh Year of the Commonwealth, by Virginia (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Called Session, 1862, in the Eighty-Seventh Year of the Commonwealth, by Virginia (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed in 1861, in the Eighty-Fifth Year of the Commonwealth (includes ordinances of the Va. State Convention; Richmond: W. F. Ritchie, 1861), by Virginia and Va.) Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sketches of the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia, by Virginia (partial serial archives)

• Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Michel Rosenfeld (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory, and Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Gregory Leyh (HTML at UC Press)
• Law and the Order of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Robert Post (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• La Loi Territoriale et les Traités Diplomatiques Devant les Juridictions des États Contractants: Essai sur l'I̕nterprétation des Traités (doctoral thesis in French; Paris: E. Pichon et Durand-Auzias, 1910), by Auguste Prudhomme
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• British Statutes in American Law, 1776-1836 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1964), by Elizabeth Gaspar Brown, contrib. by William Wirt Blume and Allan F. Smith (PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Ronen Shamir (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Code of the City of Montgomery: Prepared in Pursuance of an Order of the City Council of Montgomery (Montgomery, AL: Gaines and Smith, 1861), by Montgomery (Ala.), ed. by John W. A. Sanford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Revised Ordinances of the City of Galesburg, by Galesburg (Ill.) (page images at MOA)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston, Together With the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City (Boston: J. H. Eastburn, 1850), by Boston (Mass.), ed. by Peleg W. Chandler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Revised Charter and Ordinances of the City of Detroit (1855 edition), by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)
• The Revised Ordinances of the City of Detroit for the Year 1871, by Detroit (Mich.) (page images at MOA)

• The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond (Richmond, VA: J. E. Goode, city printer, 1875), by Richmond (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Revised Charter & Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, with the By-Laws of the Council, by Kenosha (Wis.) (page images at MOA)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, by Arkansas Territory (partial serial archives)

• Acts of New Brunswick, by New Brunswick (partial serial archives)

• The Acts of the General Assembly of Prince Edward Island, by Prince Edward Island (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Other People's Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #18; London: Stevens and Sons, 1966), by Charles James Dalrymple Shaw Kilbrandon (PDF in the UK)
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Riddle of the Ruthvens, and Other Studies (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, 1919), by William Roughead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring (11 volumes in 22; Edinburgh: W. Tait; et al., 1838-1843), by Jeremy Bentham, ed. by John Bowring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, by David D. Friedman
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at daviddfriedman.com
  • HTML of prepublication draft at daviddfriedman.com
• Quistioni di Dritto: Trattate Nella Conclusioni, Ne' Discorsi ed in Altri Scritti Legali (2 volumes in 1, in Italian; Naples: Tipografia Prete Largo Avellino, 1869), by Niccola Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (electronic edition, 2011), by Peter W. Martin (frame-dependent HTML at Cornell)

• Session Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials, by Alaska Legislature (partial serial archives)

• Acts of the General Assembly, by Arkansas (partial serial archives)
• Ordinances of the State Convention, Which Convened in Little Rock, May 6, 1861 (Little Rock: Johnson and Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, by Arkansas Territory (partial serial archives)

• Tales From the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (2006), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (page images with commentary at Duke)

• Acts and Resolutions of the Third Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, held at Richmond, Va. (1861), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press by Tyler et al., 1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, From the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive: Arranged In Chronological Order, Together With the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States With Indian Tribes (Richmond, VA: R. M. Smith, 1864), by Confederate States of America, ed. by James M. Matthews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States of America (Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together With the Acts and Resolutions of the Three Sessions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States (bound with the Acts and Resolutions of the fourth session; Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861-1862), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America (with public and private laws for the first session of First Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters; To Which are Added Specimens of the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of Other Colonies and Some Blue-Laws of England in the Reign of James I (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1876), ed. by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Olden Blue Laws (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

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