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This is an incomplete list of statutory codes from the U.S. states, territories, and the one federal district. Most states use a single official code divided into numbered titles. Pennsylvania's official codification is still in progress.
The law of most of the states is based on the common law of England; the notable exception is Louisiana, whose civil law is largely based upon French and Spanish law.The passage of time has led to state courts and legislatures expanding, overruling, or modifying the common law; as a result, the laws of any given state invariably differ from the laws of its sister states.
This is a list of United States state legislatures. Each state in the United States has a legislature as part of its form of civil government . Most of the fundamental details of the legislature are specified in the state constitution .
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.
The Guarantee Clause of Article 4 of the Constitution states that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." These two provisions indicate states did not surrender their wide latitude to adopt a constitution, the fundamental documents of state law, when the U.S. Constitution was adopted.
List of United States federal legislation; Acts listed by popular name, via Cornell University; United States Statutes at Large. Volumes 1 through 18, 1789–1875, via Library of Congress; Public Laws (PL) Current Congress only, via the U.S. Government Printing Office; 104th Congress through current Congress, via the U.S. Government Printing Office
The Uniform Auction and Auctioneer Licensing Act [4] (2006) is a sample law, proposed by the National Auctioneers Association, intended to be used by states as a template when drafting their own legislation governing auctions and auctioneers.
List of legislation in the United Kingdom; List of acts of the Parliament of England; List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain; List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland (to 1707) List of acts of the Scottish Parliament (1999 onwards) List of acts of the Parliament of Ireland (to 1800)