| Public Laws |
Laws intended to be of general application |
| Private Laws |
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 |
