Title 1 — General Provisions
39 sections across 3 chapters.
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Ch. 1 — Words denoting number 8 sections
- § 1 Words denoting number, gender, and so forth
- § 2 “County” as including “parish”, and so forth
- § 3 “Vessel” as including all means of water transportation
- § 4 “Vehicle” as including all means of land transportation
- § 5 “Company” or “association” as including successors and assigns
- § 6 Limitation of term “products of American fisheries”
- § 7 Definition of “marriage” and “spouse”
- § 8 “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant
Ch. 2 — Enacting clause 18 sections
- § 101 Enacting clause
- § 102 Resolving clause
- § 103 Enacting or resolving words after first section
- § 104 Numbering of sections; single proposition
- § 105 Title of appropriation Acts
- § 106 Printing bills and joint resolutions
- § 106a Promulgation of laws
- § 106b Amendments to Constitution
- § 107 Parchment or paper for printing enrolled bills or resolutions
- § 108 Repeal of repealing act
- § 109 Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities
- § 110 Saving clause of Revised Statutes
- § 111 Repeals as evidence of prior effectiveness
- § 112 Statutes at Large; contents; admissibility in evidence
- § 112a United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; contents; admissibility in evidence
- § 112b United States international agreements; transmission to Congress
- § 113 “Little and Brown’s” edition of laws and treaties; slip laws; Treaties and Other International Acts Series; admissibility in evidence
- § 114 Sealing of instruments
Ch. 3 — Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United State 13 sections
- § 201 Publication and distribution of Code of Laws of United States and Supplements and District of Columbia Code and Supplements
- § 202 Preparation and publication of Codes and Supplements
- § 203 District of Columbia Code; preparation and publication; cumulative supplements
- § 204 Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements
- § 205 Codes and Supplement; where printed; form and style; ancillaries
- § 206 Bills and resolutions of Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives; form and style; ancillaries; curtailment of copies
- § 207 Copies of acts and resolutions in slip form; additional number printed for Committee on the Judiciary of House of Representatives
- § 208 Delegation of function of Committee on the Judiciary to other agencies; printing, and so forth, under direction of Joint Committee on Printing
- § 209 Copies of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; conclusive evidence of original
- § 210 Distribution of Supplements to Code of Laws of United States and of District of Columbia Code and Supplements; slip and pamphlet copies
- § 211 Copies to Members of Congress
- § 212 Additional distribution at each new Congress
- § 213 Appropriation for preparing and editing supplements