FINDING A LAW BY POPULAR NAME


Prepared by Karen Kimber, Social Sciences and Humanities Team Leader
Paul Laurence Dunbar University, Wright State University

These sources will help you find the legal citation for a law when all you know is its popular name

• Popular Names of Acts in the US Code
• Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Names, Federal and State.. Ref KF80.S5
• United States Code. KF62 1940 .A2 - The section "Acts Cited by Popular Name" appears after Title 50