State Law

Will Someone Please Fix The CT Statute Indexes

By Ryan

This is a small issue but there’s no legal issue too small for this blog.

The indexes to the Connecticut General Statutes (the blue books put out by the State) are some form of cruel and unusual punishment.

The indexes are comprised of 3 seperate index books that are divided alphabetically.

There’s some logic to it but it escapes me.

For example, a few days ago, I had a narrow question about “child support.” So I went to my book shelf, pulled the index that covered “C” and looked under the subject of child support.

I found child support and it read: “See, support, child.” What?!?!?

Then I had to pull the “S” in a different book and look for “support, child.”

The indexes are littered with things like this and it drives me nuts. It has to be the least intuitive index on the planet.

“See this” is everywhere. So much so that it would often make sense to cite the statutes in two places in the index because doing so would be less ink. Seriously.

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Have a beautiful Monday.

Full post as published by A Connecticut Law Blog on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).