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What is the US Code of Laws? Well simply put this is just an assembly of all
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existing federal statutes in the United States. Now it's a compendium and it was
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first assembled in 1926 and it's assembled by a group called the Office of
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Law Revision Council for the US House of Representatives. So they take the
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statutes that are passed pursuant to acts before Congress. So Congress signs off
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on and passes an act, the president ratifies it and it goes into law. Now the
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individual laws that come out of that act, the individual statutes that are
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proposed as part of the act and thus passed are then assembled into what is
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called slip laws and these are compiled once again for record in the U.S
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government, but for ease of access and use, the Office of Law Revision Council of the
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U.S. House of Representatives assembles these SLEP laws into an easily organized and accessible
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compendium, and that's the U.S. Code of Laws, okay? There are 53 titles
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You'll see 54, but the 53rd title is reserved, so there's actually 53 titles that cover broad
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areas of law, and then of course it's subdivided extensively to develop further upon the individual
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areas of law that fall under that main or broad area. So in summary, the U.S. Code of Laws is just a compilation of the existing federal statutes
