# Universal Bibliography/Law/Legislation

This page is part of a pan-jurisdictional bibliography of law. This part of the Universal Bibliography is a bibliography of legislation.
Collections of statutes; tables and idexes
* Current Law Statutes Annotated
* Annotated Legislation Service
* Chronological Table of the Statutes
* Index to the Statutes
* Chronological Table of Local Acts
* Index to Local Acts. 1900.
* Chronological Table of Private and Personal Acts
* The Statutes of the Realm
* Statutes at Large
** Keble
** Hawkins
** Cay (1751)
** Ruffhead (1763) , Runnington (1786) , Raithby, Rickards
** Pickering
* The Public General Acts and Measures
* The Law Reports - Public General Statutes
* Halsbury's Statutory Instruments
* Statutory Rules and Orders Revised. 1889.
* Statutory Rules and Orders Revised. Second Edition. 1903.
* The Statutory Rules and Orders and Statutory Instruments Revised. Third Edition. Revised to 1948.
* Table of Government Orders
* Index to Government Orders
* Blackstone's Guides. (Blackstone's Guide to the . . . Act YYYY).
* Blackstone's Statutes (formerly Blackstone's Statute Books)
* Routledge Student Statutes
* Butterworth's Handbooks
* Butterworth's Twentieth Century Statutes (continuation of Butterworth's Statutes) - 30 LQR 248
* Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility - 30 LQR 118
* Chitty's Annual Statutes. (Chitty's Annual Statutes and Statutory Rules and Orders). (Chitty's Annual Statutes of Practical Utility). (The Annual Statutes of Practical Utility). Reviews:
** Statutes of Practical Utility passed in YYYY
** Chitty's Statutes of Practical Utility . . . [Supplement] containing Statutes of Practical Utility passed in YYYY . Reviews and commentary:
* Paterson's Practical Statutes.
* The Annotated Acts. Sweet & Maxwell. Reviews:
* Williams. Everyday Statutes Annotated. Commentary:
* Haynes. The Students Statutes. . 3rd Ed: 1884
* Weekly Reporter Statutes: Reviews: . . See w:John Warrington Rogers.
* Keen, Local Legislation, 1913 - 30 LQR 514
* The Scots Statutes Revised. William Green. The Public General Statutes Affecting Scotland. v7, v9. The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 1424-1707:
* The Scots Statutes. William Green
* The Public General Statutes affecting Scotland. (A Collection of the Public General Statutes affecting Scotland). William Blackwood and Sons.
* The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland 1424-1707. .
* "The Scots Laws and Acts of Parliament . . ." [from dedication page]. 1681. (wikisource)
* The Irish Statute Book (irishstatutebook.ie)
* The Irish Legislation Database
* Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated (1984 onwards)
* Butterworths Irish Annotated Statutes
* Acts of the Oireachtas as Promulgated editions:IGC_LLhP9k0C
* The Public General Acts Passed by the Oireachtas of Saorstát Eireann editions:9uGAwaL3oy4C editions:oeK_mEAPtEMC editions:EBYhYxPYHVAC
South Africa
* Juta's Statutes of South Africa
* Statutes of the Republic of South Africa: Classified and Annotated from 1910. Butterworths. Durban. 1967 onwards. Looseleaf.
* The Union Statutes: Classified and Annotated Reprint: 1910–1947. Butterworth. Durban. 1948 to 1952.
** Cumulative Supplement
* Statutes of the Republic of South Africa, YYYY. Government Printer.
* Statutes of the Union of South Africa, YYYY. Government Printer.
* Juta's Provincial Ordinances
* Cape of Good Hope: Acts of Parliament.
* Jackson (ed). Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1905.
* Tennant and Jackson (eds). Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1895.
* Foster, Tennant and Jackson (eds). Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1886. Review:
* Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope passed by the Xth Parliament during the Sessions YYYY-YYYY
* A Selection of the Statutes of the Cape of Good Hope as Set by the University of Cape of Good Hope for the Law Examinations
* Statute Law of the Cape of Good Hope
* Tennant (compiler). Alphabetical Index to the Statute Law of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 1877.
* Ordinances of the Province of the Cape of Good Hope
* Acts of the Parliament of the Colony of Natal
* Statutes of Natal
* Natal Ordinances, Laws, and Proclamations
* Ordinances, Proclamations, &c, &c, &c, relating to the Colony of Natal
* Ordinances of the Province of Natal
* William Broome. The Laws of Natal.
* Statutes of the Orange River Colony
* The Statute Law of the Orange River Colony
* Ordinances of the Province of the Orange Free State
* Statutes of the Transvaal
* Statute Law of the Transvaal
* Ordinances of the Transvaal
* Ordinances of the Transvaal Colony
* Statutory Proclamations of the Transvaal
France
Many law books contain a table of statutes referred to in the volume.
Practical editions, practical statutes, statutes of practical utility
United Kingdom
See the entries for Chitty and Paterson above. The Law Times published a series of practical editions of important statutes: "Notices of New Law Books" (1846) 8 The Law Times 29.
Ontario
New Zealand
* Wilson, Walter Munro. The Practical Statutes of New Zealand. Wayte and Batger. Auckland. 1867. .
* Barton's Practical Statutes. Barton, George Burnett. The Practical Statutes of New Zealand. Dunedin. 1876 to 1877. catalogue. Commentary: . For Barton, see Allibone.
Victoria
New South Wales
* Oliver, Alexander. A Collection of the Statutes of Practical Utility, Colonial and Imperial, in Force in New South Wales. Thomas Richards. Sydney. 1879. v1, v2.
* Cary, Henry (ed). A Collection of Statutes affecting New South Wales; containing all the Statutes of Practical Utility to the Present Time. Sands and Kenny. Sydney and Melbourne. 1861. v1, v2.
* Tarleton, W W. A Collection of the Private Acts of Practical Utility in force in New South Wales; embracing the Local Private Legislation. Sydney. 1886. Catalogues:
Abstracts
* A Compendious Abstract of the Public General Acts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (Law Journal Reports). . editions:fBGGcgLwSwcC editions:-3mv3mL5IBEC editions:9iA3vgspwG8C
* Williams, Thomas Walter. An Accurate Abstract of the Public General Statutes passed in ... (with notes and comments): editions:zW3zdZkcMNYC editions:uD0US8VHjXAC (also called "Statutes of the Year": ). A Compendious Abstract of the Public General Acts Passed in . . .
Legislation of the year or session, new legislation: abstracts, epitomes, notes etc in periodicals and year books
* "Legislation of the Year". Solicitors' Journal. . "A Reading of the New Statutes".
* "New Laws of the Session". The Law Times: . Law Times Editions of Important Statutes: .
* "New Statutes" in "The Legislator". The Law Times. .
* "The Statutes YYYY-YY". The Law Times. .
* "Abstract of Public General Statutes". The Law Magazine
* Notes on New Statutes. The Legal Observer. . New Statutes. .
* Recent Statutes, X and Y Victoria. The Law Chronicle.
* "The Past Session". The Justice of the Peace. . "The Statutes of the Session" . "The Statutes of the past Session"
* Thwaites, Charles. "Epitome of Statutes". The Law Students' Journal. .
* The Statutes X and Y Victoriae. The Journal of Jurisprudence. .
* "The Legislation of YYYY". Irish Law Times. . "The Statutes of X and Y Victoria" .
* The Statutes of YYYY. The Constitutional Year Book. .
* "Abstracts of Important Public Acts". Companion to the Almanac; or, Year-Book of General Information. (The British Almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge). Charles Knight. .
* "Review of the Legislation of the British Empire in YYYY". Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation. "Notes of the State of Legislation in America in YYYY" . "French Legislation in YYYY". "German Legislation in YYYY. 1900. "Review of Legislation YYYY". .
* "New Acts of Parliament". Public Health.
Yearbooks
Chronological tables
Upper Canada
New South Wales
New Zealand
India
* Chronological Tables of the Indian Statutes
* Chronological Tables and Index of the Indian Statutes
* Field, Charles Dickinson. Chronological Table of, and Index to, the Indian Statute-Book.1870
Pennsylvania
New York
Indexes
Google Books and Internet Archive
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* Archive.org
* 1870, 1872, 1874, 1877, PGS 1881, PGA 1881, 1882, 1884, 1892, 1896, 1902, 1904, 1906
Statutes Revised
* 1st Ed
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* 2nd Ed
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* 3rd Ed
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The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: Revised Edition
Paterson's Practical Statutes 1902, 1903
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Chitty's Statutes
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* Annual
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A Collection of the Public General Statutes
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The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland
Scots Statutes
Scots Statutes Revised
Public Bills
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Local and Personal Acts, The Local Acts, The Private Acts
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Other works
* Bennion. Statute Law.
* Bennion. Statutory Interpretation.
* Miers and Page. Legislation.
* Craies on Statute Law. 1911. (formerly Hardcastle on Statutory Law). 1892. Now Craies on Legislation.
* Maxwell on Statutes. (On the Interpretation of Statutes). (The Interpretation of Statutes). 1st Ed: 1875. 2nd Ed: 1883. 3rd Ed: 1896. 4th Ed: 1905. 5th Ed: 1912. 6th Ed: 1920. 7th Ed: 1929. 8th Ed: 1937. 9th Ed: 1946. 10th Ed: 1953. 11th Ed: 1962. 12th Ed: 1969.
* Cross on Statutory Interpretation
* The Law Commission. The Interpretation of Statutes. Law Com 21. 1969.
* Ilbert. Legislative Methods and Forms. Oxford. 1901.
* Evans. Statutory Interpretation.
* Lowe and Potter. Understanding Legislation: A Practical Guide to Statutory Interpretation.
* Dale. Legislative Drafting: A New Approach.
Europe
Ireland
* Hunt, Brian. The Irish Statute Book: A Guide to Irish Legislation. First Law Limited. 2007. (consultant ed: Francis Bennion)
* Vance. The Irish Statutes. 1862 . The Green Book; or, Reading Made Easy of the Irish Statutes. 1862. (digest of case law on interpretation of particular Acts)
* Hand, Geoffrey Joseph. "Statutes". English Law in Ireland 1290-1324. Cambridge University Press. 1967. Chapter 8. Page 159 et seq.
Countries
New Zealand
See Legislation of New Zealand