Laws passed for the benefit of an individual or small
group of individuals
Slip Law
Separate publication of an individual act;
may be distributed in pamphlet or electronic form
Session Laws
Publication of the laws enacted during
a particular legislative session; laws are presented
in chronological order; publication of bound official
versions is often slow
Advance Legislative Service
Commercial publishers print session
laws in pamphlet form before official versions are
available; usually shelved at the end of an annotated
code set
Code
Subject compilation of the public laws
currently in force in a particular jurisdiction
Annotated Code
Contains references to cases and other
research aids in addition to the text of the code
Title
May refer to the overall organizational
scheme of a code, i.e. Title 18 of the U.S. Code includes
federal criminal laws; or, may refer to the organizational
scheme of a particular law, i.e. Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits sex-based discrimination
in employment (42 U.S.C. § 2000e)
Uniform Law
Drafted by the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; states may adopt
in its entirety or with changes; original versions
of uniform laws are found in Uniform Laws Annotated
which also contains notes on the status of adoption
in the various states and references to state court
decisions
