Historical Compilations of New Jersey Law

The NJ State Library’s (NJSL) Law Library’s Historical Compilations of New Jersey Law page provides access to compilations of state laws dating from 1709 to 2000.

This bibliography of selected compilations of New Jersey law includes the call numbers of print copies and links to digitized copies on the web. Digital copies of these works are also available to state employees and TESU in HeinOnline.

Indexes

Hood, John. Index of Colonial and State Laws Between the Year 1663 and 1877 Inclusive by John Hood (1877).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at Google, HathiTrust  and Internet Archive.

Hood, John. Index of Colonial and State Laws of New Jersey between the years 1663 and 1903 Inclusive (1905).
Call number: J345 N5.
Available online at Google.

Compilations

O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. Laws and ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 (1868).
Call number: KFN 5030.5 O32 1868
Available online at Google and HathiTrust.

Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey
This series was commissioned in the 1970s to identify all laws enacted by the provincial legislature, and to publish complete and authentic texts of those laws whether they were published or existed only in manuscript.
Call number: multiple copies in Law, Jerseyana, and Genealogy.
No known digitized copy.

• Bush, Bernard (comp.), Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1703-1745, New Jersey Archives, Third Series, Volume 2 (Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey State Library Archives and History Bureau, 1977)
• Bush, Bernard (comp.), Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1746-1760, New Jersey Archives, Third Series, Volume 3 (Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey State Library Archives and History Bureau, 1980)
• Bush, Bernard (comp.), Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1760-1769, New Jersey Archives, Third Series, Volume 4 (Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey State Library Archives and History Bureau, 1982)
• Bush, Bernard (comp.), Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1770-1775 with Addenda & Index, New Jersey Archives, Third Series, Volume 5 (Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey State Library Archives and History Bureau, 1986)

Cushing, John D. (comp.) The Earliest Printed Laws of New Jersey (1703-1722) (1978)
Call number: Law – SS NJ
No known digitized copy.

Bradford, William. The laws and acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesties province of Nova Caesarea or New-Jersey (1709).
Call number: J348 W5.2q VAULT
No known digitized copy.

Kinsey’s Acts (1732).
Call number: J348 N51q
Available online at Google.

Bradford’s Acts and Laws (1740).
No copy at the State Library.
No known digitized copy.

Nevill’s Acts (identified as New Jersey Provincial Statutes) (1752).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at Google.

Leaming and Spicer. The Grants, Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey (1758).
Call number: J348 N51.1q
No known digitized copy.
See also an article on Leaming and Spicer from 14 N.J.L.J. 132.

Leaming and Spicer. The Grants, Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey (reprinted in 1881).
See also an article on Leaming and Spicer from 14 N.J.L.J. 132.
Call number: NJ KFN 1878 L4 2002
Available online at Rutgers, Internet Archive and HathiTrust.

Nevill’s Acts (1761).
Call number: J348 N51.3q
Available online at Google.

Allinson’s Acts (1776).
Call number: J348 N51.4q
Available online at Google.

Wilson’s Acts (1784).
Call number: SS NJ (reproduction)
Available online at Google and HathiTrust.

Paterson’s Acts (1800).
Call number: Rare Books
Available online at Google.

Wilson’s Public Laws (1805).
Call number: J348 N51.6b and J347 E95
No known digitized copy.

The Public Laws of the State of New Jersey, since the revision by Judge Paterson, in 1800 (1805).
Call number: J348 N51.6b VAULT
Available online at HathiTrust and Google.

Bloomfield’s Laws of the State of New Jersey (1811).
Available in print in NJSL (Law)
Available online at Rutgers, Google, Internet Archive and HathiTrust.

An abridgment of decisions, of the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1815).
Call number: J348 S94p
Available online at HathiTrust.

Pennington’s Laws of the State of New-Jersey (1821).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at Google (second copy) and Hathitrust (second copy) and HeinOnline.

Harrison’s Compilation (1833).
Call number: J348 N51.9q
Available online at Google (second copy) and HathiTrust (second copy).

Elmer’s Digest (1838).
Call number: J348.02 L36.
Available online at Google.

Harrison’s Public Laws.
No copy at the State Library.

Revision of 1845/1846/1847.
Available in print in NJSL (Law).
Available online at Rutgers, Google (second copy) and HathiTrust (second copy).

Elmer-Nixon Digest (1851).
Call number: J348 E48

Gifford’s Digest (1852).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at HathiTrust.

Elmer (Nixon) Digest (1855) (Second Edition).
Call number: J348.02 L36
Available online at Google and HathiTrust.

Elmer (Nixon) Digest (1861) (Third Edition).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at Google and Internet Archive.

Elmer (Nixon) Digest (1868) (Fourth Edition).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at Google.

Statutes

Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey, passed 1874.
Available in print in NJSL (Law)
Available online at Google.

Revisions of the Statutes of New Jersey 1877.
Call number: SS NJ (reproduction)
Available online at New Jersey Digital Legal Library and HathiTrust.

Honeyman, A. V. D. An abridgement of the revised statutes of New Jersey: and of the amended constitution (1878).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at HathiTrust (Second Copy) and Google.

Supplement to the Revision of the statutes of New Jersey (1887).
No copy at the State Library.
Available online at HathiTrust.

General Statutes of New Jersey (1895). (Includes Luce’s Table of Statutes)

• Volume 1
  No copy at the State Library.
  Available online at New Jersey Digital Legal Library and HathiTrust.
• Volume 2
  No copy at the State Library.
  Available online at New Jersey Digital Legal Library and HathiTrust and Google.
• Volume 3
  No copy at the State Library.
  Available online at New Jersey Digital Legal Library and HathiTrust.

Compiled Statutes of New Jersey (1910)

• Volume 1
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at Google (second copy) and HathiTrust.
• Volume 2
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at Google (second copy) and HathiTrust.
• Volume 3
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at Google and HathiTrust.
• Volume 4
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at Google (second copy) and HathiTrust (Second Copy).
• Volume 5
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at Google (second copy) (third copy) and HathiTrust (Second Copy).

Cumulative Supplement to the Compiled Statutes of New Jersey, 1911-1924. (1925)

• Volume 1
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at HathiTrust.
• Volume 2
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at HathiTrust.
• Volume 3
  Available in print in NJSL (Law).
  Available online at HathiTrust.

1925-1930 Supplement to the Compiled Statutes of New Jersey (1931).
Available in print in NJSL (Law).
Available online at HathiTrust

Revised Statutes of 1937 (five volumes)
Available in print in NJSL (Law).

See also

New Jersey statutes (unannotated) is the most current official text of the permanent and general statutes of New Jersey.

New Jersey Statutes Annotated (current)
Available in print in NJSL (Law).

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