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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.
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.
Uniform State Administrative Procedure Act: 1981 Uniform Status of Children of Assisted Conception Act: 1988 Uniform Statute and Rule Construction Act: 1995 Uniform Statutory Form Power of Attorney Act: 1988 Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities: 1986, 1990 Uniform Supervision of Trustees for Charitable Purposes Act: 1954
This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and originated from the Black Codes that were passed from 1865 to 1866 and from before the American Civil War.
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 .
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.
The original four codes were printed as separate state documents in 1872 (but not as part of the California Statutes), and were also published by commercial publishers in various versions, including as a set in 1872. [10] In lieu of an official set, unofficial annotated codes are widely available from private publishers. [10]