Add the title or chapter number
Error2Federal courts, Illinois courts21st and 22nd editions
Where a code numbers its sections inside separately numbered titles or chapters, that number is part of the citation: “Del. Code Ann. tit. 6, § 2513(a)”, not “Del. Code Ann. § 2513(a)”.1
- Wrong
- Del. Code Ann. § 2513(a)
- Right
- Del. Code Ann. tit. 6, § 2513(a)
- 1R. 12.3.1(b) Title, chapter, or volume; B12.1.2 State Statutes. Tables: T1.3 States and the District of Columbia.
- 2An error: the rule in note 1 allows one form, and this is not it.
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