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A Division of the Library

Statutes

Codified federal and state statutory law, organized by title and chapter.

§ I

Introduction

Scope of the Division

Statutes

384 catalogued

The Division of Statutes holds the codified acts of Congress and of the state legislatures. Uniform laws and model acts are catalogued alongside their enacting jurisdictions.

§ II

What Belongs Here

The materials catalogued in this division.

A division collects materials of a single kind. The following are the working classes of record.

  1. 01

    The United States Code, by title and chapter

  2. 02

    State codes and session laws of record

  3. 03

    Uniform and model acts, with notes on enactment

§ III

Research Notes

How the division is read.

Notes for the reader on how the materials are catalogued and consulted.

  1. 01

    Sections are read with their statutory definitions and official commentary.

  2. 02

    Successive amendments are catalogued so that the text in force at any date may be located.

§ IV

Featured Authorities

A working selection from the division.

The following are representative entries. They have been catalogued and reviewed; the longer record opens by catalogue search.

§ V

Related Collections

Subjects that draw upon this division.

The following Research Collections gather authority from this division alongside materials from elsewhere in the catalogue.

Collection

Commercial Law

The Uniform Commercial Code and the federal law of commercial paper, secured transactions, and sales.

Draws from · Statutes · Regulations · Treatises

Collection

Property

Estates in land, recorded instruments, and the chain of title.

Draws from · Statutes · Judicial Opinions · Treatises

Collection

Trust Administration

The instrument, the governing statute, and the fiduciary duties of the trustee.

Draws from · Statutes · Treatises

Collection

Foreclosure

Judicial and non-judicial foreclosure, with the rules of procedure and the recorded record.

Draws from · Statutes · Court Rules · Forms

Collection

Consumer Credit

The federal consumer credit statutes and the regulations that implement them.

Draws from · Statutes · Regulations · Administrative Guidance

Collection

Taxation

The Internal Revenue Code, the Treasury regulations, and the interpretive guidance of the Service.

Draws from · Statutes · Regulations · Administrative Guidance

§ VI

Related Publications

Volumes drawn from, or that draw from, this division.

The Society's press supplies, and is supplied by, the working record of the Library.

§ VIII

Bibliographic Note

How this division is cited.

Statutes are cited by code, title, and section, with the year of enactment or last amendment.

15 U.S.C. § 1692e (1977)
Specimen form · Division of Statutes

§ IX

Within the Library

Divisions that read alongside this one.

Authority does not respect divisional boundaries. The following divisions are consulted together with this one.

§ X

Authority Discovery

Browse this division by metadata.

These indexes are alternative metadata views of the same canonical authority records. They are not separate collections or archives.

Admission

Read the Statutes division alongside the founding cohort.

Founding Members enter every School of the Academy and every division of the Library. Tuition and dues are not yet open.

The Real Law Society · Est. MMXXVRead Law. Not Lore.Vol. I — Folio I