Location is Everything
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Session Laws
A statute is also referred to as this.
What is a Law or an Act?
Sometimes includes case and journal references.
What is an annotated code?
Abbreviation for Statutes at Large
Stat.
The Lexis version of the U.S. Code.
What is the USCS or US Code Service?
Statutes begin life as one of these.
What are Bills?
Best information for locating a statute in a code.
What is a citation?
Keystrokes used to create a ยง
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Session Laws are arranged this way.
What is chronological order?
Current laws arranged by topic.
What is a Code?
A finding tool that lists subjects in alphabetical order.
What is an Index?
Year of the current print set of the US Code.
What is 2012?
Code > Title > Chapter > Subchapter > ________
What is a Section?
Abbreviation for the official Oregon code.
What is the ORS?
What is the Popular Name Table?
Look here for the name(s) of state codes.
What is Table 1?
A new act that replaces parts of an earlier act is called this.
What is an amendment?
Primary Sources: Const, Cases, Stats and
What are Regs?
Not a great way to find an unknown statute in Westlaw or Lexis.
What is keyword searching?
When a federal statute is first published, it is identified by this number.
What is its Pub. Law. No?